Moroccan tagines are an exotic form of stew, normally cooked in an earthenware pot with a conical lid.

The conical lid has a jaunty topknot used as a handle.

I also enjoyed the veal-and-eggplant tagine ($15), served in the traditional Moroccan earthenware pot with a conical lid.

This one is cylindrical, with a conical lid that once held a cross finial.

The restaurant's signature tagines, fragrant stews served in traditional earthenware vessels with conical lids, are the least satisfying of the main courses.

Tagine with lamb, prunes and dates is served in its traditional earthenware pot with a conical lid.

The box on which the cylinder rotates, with its conical lid, and in which its motor reposes, is made of plexiglass in a brighter pink.

Even better than the couscous are tajines, or Moroccan stews, served in traditional brown earthenware crocks with conical lids.

Their historical references - fluted columns, conical lids - turned teatime tabletops into miniature postmodernist villages.

The soapstone baptismal font, with its conical wooden lid, is of gothic style and is still in use.