Folia archeologica 9.

Parádi Nándor: Későközépkori kályhacsempe negatívok

186 lengthwise into two panels, and one of the two similar moulds of the cornertiles the more poorly executed ones suggest that they were taken from stovetiles. The ethnographical material indicates that the rims of the bowl-shaped hollowed tiles (Kachel) made on wheel were formed into a rectangular shape with a wooden frame (Pl. XXX. no. 4, Nagykanizsa). Presumably the plateshaped back of the stove-tiles of the late Middle Ages were made in this way too. The author comes to the conclusion, judging by the material examined, that the clay moulds were generally in use in the late Middle Ages. He considers it possible, on the basis of the resemblance of the representations of the Besztercebánya tiles and of that of the triptyches that the greater part of the stove-tile moulds were taken from carved wooden designs.