POTTE RY AND IORCELAIN.

about the time of the Centennial Exposition. The factory
is now owned by Messrs. L. B. Beerbower & Co., who
make ironstone china, cream-colored and print-decorated
goods in druggists' ware, toilet, table, and culinary sets.
The pottery now managed by the widow of Henry
Gast, Lancaster, Pa., dates back to about 1825. Common
red and yellow wares were made there, and at one time a
limited amount of white ware. Fancy figures, fountains,
and statuettes were also produced to some extent in red
clay. Latterly this pottery has produced a considerable
number of cinerary urns for crematories. At one time
white clay tobacco pipes were made, and a few fancy
glazed umbrella and cane handles. Floor tiles of yellow
clay, octagonal and rhomboidal, were also made to some
extent some fifteen years ago. These were heavy, un-
glazed tiles, six or eight inches across, and an inch in
thickness.
THE JERSEY CITY POTTERY.
The Jersey Porcelain and Earthenware Company was
incorporated in " the town of Jersey, County of Bergen,"
on December 10, 1825, under an act of the New Jersey
Legislature, in which George Dummer, Timothy Dewey,
Henry Post, Jr., William W. Shirley, and Robert Abbatt,
Jr., were named as incorporators. In the following year
the products of the factory were awarded a silver medal
at the exhibition of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia,
as being the " best china from American materials." In
t Ie Trumbull-Prime collection is a small porcelain bowl,
with heavy gold band. which was made at this pottery, of

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