“Blew & white ware” is however not an infrequent item on early inventories of the last half of the century. John Betts, of Cambridge, Mass., had before his death, in 1662, “Som duth earthen platters & Som other Earthen ware,” valued at 6s. 8d. A citizen of Salem had in 1664 “17 pieces of blew & white earthen ware” worth 8s. 6d. John Cross, of Ipswich, left behind him in 1650 his “Holland jugs.” All these were doubtless Delft or the early imitations of Delft. The oldest and most authentic piece of stone-ware in the country is the fine jug preserved in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society, at Worcester. It was the property of Governor Winthrop, who died in 1649, and was given to the Society by a descendant, Adam Winthrop. It stands eight inches in height and is apparently of German Gres-ware, and is richly mounted in silver. The lid is engraved with a quaint design of Adam and Eve with the tempting serpent in the apple-tree. Estienne Perlin, writing in Paris in 1558, says, “The English drink beer not out of glass but from earthen pots, the cover and handles being made of silver for the rich. The middle classes mount them with tin.” Another writer, in 1579, spoke of the English custom of drinking from “pots of earth of sundry colors and moulds, whereof many are garnished with silver or at leastwise with pewter.” Such is this “beer mug” or tankard of Governor Winthrop’s, which is certainly three hundred years old. Other Massachusetts colonists had similar beer-mugs. Jacob Leager, of Boston, left in 1662 a “stone judg tipt with silver;” Henry Dunster had a “tipt jugg” in 1655; and Thomas Rix had in 1678 “3 fflanders jugs.” [Illustration: Winthrop Jug.] Lisbon ware, which was earthen ware, was left by will in Massachusetts in 1650; and Spanish platters and painted platters are mentioned in an inventory in 1656. Peter Bulkeley, of Concord, Mass., had in 1659 “ten paynted earthen dishes” valued at ten shillings. In the lists and inventories of the town of Stamford, from 1650 to 1676, only two shillings worth of earthen ware is entered, and Stamford planters were far from poor. In the _Boston News Letter_ of February 9, 1712, six hogsheads of earthen ware, including teapots, were advertised for sale. These early teapots are said to have been of black earthen ware.