QUARTERLY BULLETIN 93 FIG. 6 STONEWARE TEAPOT, BLACK GLAZE Nagel farmhouse, 213th Street. That the soldiers helped themselves to such wares was demonstrated by another plate of the same material, and doubtless one of the same set, which was found in a hut on Payson Avenue. Around the ruins of the Nagel house several of the larger dishes of the same Crouch ware were scattered, of which one large oval dish has been restored, and is No. i in Fig. i. This beautiful ware is distinguished by a finely cut geometric design of basket- work which was originated and executed, it is said, by Aaron Wood. (See Nos. i, 2, and 12, in Fig. 1.) The soft tone of the salt-glaze upon the dense and hard-baked material of this white ware, which is almost a porcelain in character, is extremely attractive, and there is a widespread appreciation of its beauty at the present time. That a like interest in this ware existed in the Colonial period seems to be demonstrated by the practice of some Staffordshire potters of the time, who produced imitations of the clean-cut, die-pressed ornamentation by using plaster casts made from one of the original plates, from which a very deficient copy was made in a poorer grade of the same clay. The use of plaster