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>>10720027
You can find pictures by looking for "tiled fireplace" in Slavic ("kominek kaflowy" in Polish) or Germanic languages (I tried looking for "Kachelkamin") other than English.
But majority of them look like just typical tiled stove masonry heaters just with bigger burning chamber and glass doors.

English results for "tiled fireplace" yeld typical English/UK victorian(ish) style with flat tiles like these popular in modern bathrooms.

Actual tiled stove tiles are big and chunky "3D" structures looking kinda like flat open shoebox.

I don't know what exactly you are looking for to read about them - but they seem to just regular European stoves with bigger burning chamber. So if you already know concepts connected with fireplaces just read articles about European masonry heaters. Concept of masonry heater is to use big masonry mass to accumulate heat for many hours after fuel gets burned out. In Europe typically special kind of bricks is being used. Heat is accumulated from fumes that are being routed to the chimney by elaborately very long ducts inside stove.

Tiled stove is just a case of masonry heater that developed from stoves like picrel. Development of ceramic outer shell eliminated need of repainting and recoating them every few years. Before tiles were used they were typically covered with layer of clay and painted with layer of white lime. Initially in middle ages tiles very used only in richer houses and palaces. Around the end of XIX century they started to be more common also in peasant houses by the mid XX century they became wildly affordable for pretty much everyone.