Gyuricza Anna: Reneszánsz kályhacsempék Északkelet-Magyarországról (Borsodi Kismonográfiák 37. Miskolc, 1992)

a Haban settlement, with potteries. Later the Habans have been settled to Alvinc and to Sárospatak from here. At that time Csejte has belonged, as a part of the estate, to the Nádasdy family, like Füzér. The green and yellow-brown glazed, typically Haban tile stoves - from the middle of the 17th century - in Szerencs (no. 253-258) have been made in the same place as the brown-glazed stove in Pacin (no. 148-151.), but according to our present-day knowledge, the place of their production cannot be localized. Summary I have registered every remains in the catalogue, even ones with a very small recognizable pattern. With the exception of some groups from the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century, which have been found in Füzér, all the material found in the other places are dated from the middle of the 16th century or from the second half of the 16th century, and the greater part of the material is from the first halj of the 17th century. Certainly it is not a proof for the statement that before that time tile stoves have not been built in this part of the country, though we do not have any data from earlier times. The only reason is that these fortresses and castles (except the fortress of Füzér) have been built between 1530 and 1580, so we cannot search for earlier finds here. All the studied glazed tiles are from a narrow geographical area. All five places of discovery are in the eastern part of County Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén. Füzér and Kéked are situated half-way between Kosica and Sárospatak, Pacin is situated 22 km-s south-east of Sárospatak. I have thought it is important to mention, because of its location, this territory has been in the region of the trade-route between Transsylvania-KosicePoland (Cracow) in the middle ages. So it can be an explanation for the origin of the glazed tiles. That is why it is not by chance, that tile stoves and glazed tiles from Kosice and Poland can also be found in these places mentioned above. Not only the geographical location, but the owner as well has been very important in the identification of the place of origin. The fortress of Szerencs is situated half-way between Miskolc and Sárospatak. Its first tile stove is from the region of Diósgyőr-Eger-Szécsény-Fülek-Buda, possibly because it has been very near to Miskolc. At the same time, in the second half of the 16th century there has been a stove in the fortress from Kosice, and later, in the 17th century, stoves made in Alvinc and Sárospatak (with Haban origin) have decorated the fortress of the Rákóczi family. It can be said about the whole material, that their patterns and ornaments are closely related to the style which has been wide-spread all over Europe in the 16th17jh centuries. So we can say that in spite of local differences and varieties, the ornaments on tiles from south-Germany, Austria, Poland and Slovakia are very similar and identical. 169