94 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY of Paris for such purposes was introduced in England before 1750, and several of these spurious copies of Wood's artistic work were found in the Fort Washington debris, mingled with fragments of plates of the original design and superior finish. One little cup of such white salt-glazed semi-porcelain ware escaped destruction in the barrack of the Fort. Its graceful proportions and simple decoration are seen to advantage in Fig. 3. II Stoneware Another salt-glazed material which is frequently in evidence around the camp sites is stoneware, chiefly in the form of flagons and mugs, the many uses of which by the thirsty soldiery can be readily imagined. This ware, which was largely of German or Flemish make, is extremely hard and admirably suited to the rough usage to which such vessels were liable. There are some very large crocks or flagons of which a fine specimen was reconstructed out of seventy fragments in one of the Hessian huts between Pay- son.and Seaman Avenues. It is exhibited in the Dyckman House, and from its size, situation, and the character of its rough brown and gray glazed surface, seems to have been certainly of German manufacture. This kind of stoneware was imitated in England, and several tankards or one-handled mugs have been found which bear a cartouche on which the royal initials "G. R." appeared, indicating their capacity as standard. They were probably made at Fulham. The coloring is a clouded blue which is artistically blended with the gray body of the tankards. A portion of a small vessel was found in the Fort which seems to be part of an early attempt to imitate the stoneware in cheap pottery. It is covered inside and out with a thick pinkish-gray glaze, decorated with bands of blue cobalt. It may represent one of the first attempts to produce a substitute for the ware which was imported into England from the Continent in large quantities.