Tabliega / La Tabliega de Losa

Noted and illustrated in García Omedes [www.arquivoltas.com] as a baptismal font probably daint from the restauration of the older church. The font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a moulded cylindrical pedestal base; the basin is rather irregular, and is decorated with a band of rosettes, etc., between thin mouldings, all around just below the upper rim; on one side is a carved shield with a large trefoiled cross and what may be some of the Instruments of the Passion; this carving is late, whereas the rest of ther basin could pass for medieval [unless it was re-carved]. A metal staple of the old cover remains in the upper rim, but it has split the stone next to it. The wooden cover is flat, round and plain; modern.