100 THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY stanniferous glaze, and its deep indigo blue decoration. This ware was developed in Holland, as a means of imitating upon the surface only, the hard porcelain of Chinese potters and artists, the Dutch manufacturers copying oriental designs and developing others characteristic of their own ideas of art. Of such are the familiar blue-and-white or pink-and-white tiles, taken from the fireplace of abandoned or burned-out homes and utilized by the soldiers to sharpen knives and razors. These tiles with their customary scriptural scenes, could have had no appeal to a rough military, and therefore, indicate the practice of abstracting utilizable objects which has led to the presence in camp of valuable artistic material. The manufacture of Delftware was introduced into England by the underhand method of bribing workmen to migrate. The English production was, however, inferior to the Dutch wares in the early attempts, in which the glaze took on a pink tinge and "crazed" considerably in baking. Of such material a bowl was found in the Inwood hill camp which, as restored, is q inches in diameter. It is hand-decorated in blue with crude and irregular sprays of flowers, and its interior exhibits the pink tinge of the glaze which indicates its English origin. A more artistic development of this material took form at Bristol about 1750. The soft clay was covered with a white glaze and decorated with pretty floriated designs in three colors, by careful and probably experienced artists. We were fortunate in finding a plate, and a cup and saucer of charming design (see Fig. 8) on the site of the one-time home of the Oblinus family, built in 1704, and destroyed probably about 1781, perhaps by the soldiers, of whom traces were discovered around the site. These objects are also Nos. 2 and 10 in Fig. 1. The brothers Baddeley, of Shelton, made a Delftware which they glazed with salt. It was a very pretty imitation of oriental porcelain, having a design of oriental character painted in cobalt blue under the glaze. Of such ware is a saucer found on the barrack site at Bennett Avenue. The camps also contained some parts of an early English-made Delftware, of soft paste heavily glazed, which were hand-painted with very crude designs in four colors: blue, buff, green and purple.