92 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY red and gold is so European in character that it is perhaps one of those oriental pieces brought to Lowestoft and elsewhere in England to be decorated. Nearly half of a beautiful little saucer similarly decorated in three colors was found at Bennett Avenue barrack site. A saucer of oriental porcelain, decorated with a pleasing design of a swan standing on a little islet, was among the waste of the Morris house at Morrisania. In a deep rubbish pit on Bennett Avenue, with many military objects, was a white porcelain figurine of a woolly lamb which may have been the plaything of some soldier's child in the barracks. It has the appearance of Meissen hard-paste porcelain. There are abundant evidences of the use, for their personal convenience in camp life, by the officers and men of the several nationalities engaged in the strife, of such domestic objects as teapots, pitchers, dishes, bowls, cups, saucers, and platters. Broken delft tiles from the hearths of ruined homes were sometimes utilized, as was found to have been the case within Fort Washington, as a strop for honing a knife or razor, or perhaps for putting an edge on a bayonet, for which purposes .the soft paste was not unsuited. It seems probable that these household vessels were put to a variety of uses, for we have found spoutless teapots, handle-less pitchers and broken dishes which had evidently been continued in use for some time in that mutilated condition. In one of the military hut-sites at Payson Avenue there was a beautiful lid of a vegetable dish of Wedgwood creamware, but no trace whatever of any other part of the vessel. A very fine plate of salt-glazed "Crouch" ware which had been taken, there is reason to believe, from a set in the Nagel farmhouse at 213th Street, was found in a Hessian hut at Arden Street, a mile away. It is No. 12 in Fig. 1. It had lost a large, curved piece out of its rim, but the edge of the fracture had been ground smooth, in which condition it was probably utilized as a chin-basin customarily used in the process of shaving, or in the barbers' practice of bleeding, in Colonial days. The barber's customer would hold the soap dish or bowl under his chin, and the dish being provided with a recess in the rim fitting closely against the neck, the barber could dtp his fingers in the soap and spread it on the victim's face.