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| Figure 10 Nathaniel Orr and Company, “Saleroom, Main Floor, Haughwout Building, New York,” wood engraving, from Cosmopolitan Art Journal 3 (June 1859). (Courtesy, the author.) This view of the ground-floor premises of the retailing emporium of Haughwout and Dailey at 540 Broadway shows a tantalizing survey of stylish porcelain and glass available for purchase in the 1850s. Haughwout’s hired women—mostly from Staffordshire but also from porcelain towns in eastern France and western Germany—to work as decorators in the custom workshop upstairs from the main selling floor. Many of the Uncle Tom’s Cabin-motif French vases might have acquired their unusual coloration and gilding styles from the women decorators working at this establishment. |