THE EIGHTEENTH CENTUR Y.

a world-wide reputation for hardness and durability. Mr.
Remmey is now making preparations for the manufacture
of porcelain bath-tubs and other large designs. Much of
the clay used at these works is obtained at Woodbridge,
N. J. In addition to these specialties, the factory pro-
duces an extensive line of salt-glazed household utensils,
such as mugs, pitchers, spittoons, jugs, crocks, and money-
banks. The decoration is such as is usually found on
similar wares ;-cobalt blue designs beneath the glaze,-
in addition to which a more artistic style of ornamentation
is employed to some extent, consisting of incised devices
touched with blue. The quality of these various products
is unsurpassed and the large quantity of goods manufac-
tured here places this factory in the front rank of such
establishments in this country and abroad.
SLIP-DECORATED AND SGRAFFIATO WARE.
Perhaps there are no products of the potter's art more
interesting to the antiquary and the collector than the
rude " slip-decorated " pieces which were made in Eng-
land and Germany during the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries.  Among the most prominent of the earlier
British slip-potters were Thomas and Ralph Toft, who,
with others of less renown, have left some of these primi-
tive productions, in the forms of dishes, drinking-cups,
candlesticks, and miniature cradles, which are now eagerly
sought by collectors, fine examples of which may be seen
in the Museum of Practical Geology and the South Ken-
sing-ton and British Museums of London, as well as in a

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