German: AufsatzofenEnglish translation: box stove 
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Art/Literary - Furniture / Household Appliances | | German term or phrase: Aufsatzofen | The text is describing historical furnishings in a museum. I'm clear what an Ausatzofen is and it is easy to find pictures on the internet, but I don't know what to call it in English.
Der seit dem 16. Jahrhundert gebräuchliche Aufsatzofen verbindet zwei verschiedene Heizprinzipien: Der eiserne Feuerkasten sorgt für eine schnelle Aufheizung, während der aus keramischem Material bestehende Oberofen die Wärme anhaltend speichert. |
| | Clarification request(s) and responseIngeborg Gowans: 7:59pm Sep 25, 2006: http://www.antiquestoves.com/historicstoves/index.htm
the exact term is hard to find; sometimes mentioned as parlour stove; the particular design with the "Aufsatz' does not seem to have an equivalent; but this picturegallery might help to identify the "
Ingeborg Gowans: 8:00pm Sep 25, 2006: "suspect", i was going to say; since it is not a "Kachelofen: as such, I guess tiled stove does not fit, eh?
Ken Cox: 8:12pm Sep 25, 2006: Were tile stoves ever popular outside of German-speaking countries? (very rare in NA in any case; I can't speak for the UK). The top-mouinted boxes of the stoves on IG's site are 'warming ovens' for keeping prepared food warm, not for room heating.
Ingeborg Gowans: 8:32pm Sep 25, 2006: It seems today the old designs are copied by various firms, and they name them: box stove, cylinder stove or parlour stove (none of them are authentic, so one of those names might fit the bill
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| | box stove | Explanation:
a possibility (see my comments) |
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 Ingeborg Gowans
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| Note from asker to answererThanks to everyone. In the end I called it a "two-part stove" in the title and wrote in the description of "stoves with an additional upper section ....". While I appreciated the suggestions made, "box stove" seemed to me to simply describe the shape of the firebox part, while "cornice stove" didn't seem to quite fit Ausatzöfen that I have seen depicted, where the upper stove can be a fair bit taller than the lower one - in other words the Aufsatz is considerably more than a cornice.
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| box stove
Explanation:
a possibility (see my comments)
| Ingeborg Gowans
Canada
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| Note from asker to answerer| Thanks to everyone. In the end I called it a "two-part stove" in the title and wrote in the description of "stoves with an additional upper section ....". While I appreciated the suggestions made, "box stove" seemed to me to simply describe the shape of the firebox part, while "cornice stove" didn't seem to quite fit Ausatzöfen that I have seen depicted, where the upper stove can be a fair bit taller than the lower one - in other words the Aufsatz is considerably more than a cornice. |
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