25.  Eyetiled-oven. Heating of the rooms was supplied by ovens, placed against the kitchen wall and fed from the kitchen. This type of oven can be traced back to medieval times. Famous oven-tile producing places were Tapolca, Kapolcs and Nemesleányfalu near Nagyvázsony. The ornamental decoration on the top perimeter was locally called „the crown”, usually with the depiction of love-birds. The plate-shaped „eyes” of the oven where wheel-turned, while the flat pieces were often decorated with floral and animal shapes. The most popular was the bird holding a rosemary branch in its beak.

Pottery kiln – in which ceramics were fired – in the famous Kályhás settlement, in Nemesleányfalu near Nagyvázsony. Recorded by László Nagy from 1942. Dezső Laczkó Museum, Photographs of source value. N.8215