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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA. 
Pokcelain Stove Tiles. 
The so-called "porcelain” or German stoves, familiär to 
those who have resided in Germany, Austria or Hungary, 
wei'c extensively exhibited in the Austrian and Prussian sec- 
tions. The material is not porcelain, but earthenware, 
moulded into tiles or hollow bricks about six or eight inches 
square and several inches thick. They are made in a great 
variety of ornamental forms, and are generally glazed on the 
outer or exposed face, either white,—which is most common, 
—or brown, red, green, or black. Besides the ordinary flat- 
faced tiles, they are made with incised or raised designs, or 
are moulded in high relief, so that when combined they form 
recessed panels or projecting fillets and mouldings, in a 
variety of architectural patterns. 
The back portion of the tile exposed to the lire or heated gases 
rising from it, is perforated and peculiarly shaped, so as to 
expose a large surface and make a series of tubulär openings 
favorable to the absorption of the heat in the body of the tile. 
The shape of the stove formed of these tiles varies with the 
taste of the fabricant and the demands of the consumer. 
The annexed figure, from one of the 
stoves made by J. Fischer of Pesth, 
Hungary, 
and the succeeding illustra- 
good idea of the 
use, with large 
openin 
tions, will give a 
general appearance of such stoves. 
They are generally from six to eight 
or ten feet high, with a breadth of 
three or four fect. Usually there is 
a deep recess above the fire-space, or 
an openiug quite through, the stove 
heilig divided in that portion, into 
the parts united above by an entab- 
lature and cornice. Cylindrical or 
columnar stoves are also made; in- 
deed, the modifications are numer- 
ous, to conform to the varying taste 
or fashion of the time. Lower and 
broader stoves are now coming into 
in front, so that the fire may be