House Garden 
A PORTION OF THE STOVE IN THE KNIGHTS’ HALL, HOHEN-SALZBURG 
Switzerland probably did 
little more than make 
good copies of the work 
of their German fore¬ 
runners and teachers. To 
the Pfau family belongs 
the distinction of stamp¬ 
ing the work with a 
national character, but it 
is hard to see wherein the 
change lies. Perhaps it 
is the departure from the 
studied copying of the 
engravings of Tobias 
Stimmer and Dietrich 
Meyers,whose works had 
furnished models for the 
earlier tile decorations ; 
perhaps in a slight change 
in the proportions and 
architectural design of the 
stove. Perhaps, also, it is 
the subtle difference one 
SECTIONS OF THE TILED STOVE 
It may be either square or circular. By means of the door 
B, the fire is lighted in the stove at A. The smoke rises 
freely in the chamber D, filling it and giving out considera¬ 
ble heat besides. The colder smoke, descending, finds its way, 
by means of the pipe C, into the structural chimney G. In 
the high, older stoves, shown by Fig. II, the flue enters the 
chimney direct. The door B is provided with a simple wicket 
to admit a small quantity of air if needed. As soon as the 
fire goes out, the damper E is closed and the heat retained. 
always feels in a piece of 
work that is a direct pro¬ 
duct of the man’s own 
work and feeling, and not 
a studied carrying out of 
the inspiration and design 
of some other mind. 
These two causes may 
produce objects which are 
in many ways the same. 
The difference between 
spontaneous production 
on one hand, suggested 
though it be by the ap¬ 
preciation of similar and 
greater work, and on the 
other the servile copying 
of such work will always 
make itself felt. An ex¬ 
ample of this more origi¬ 
nal work is found in the 
superior stoves signed 
“ L. P. 1620,” in the inn 
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