Jill Weitzman Fenichell
New Findings of Figural Porcelains that Feature Characters from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Ceramics in America 2024

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  • Figure 1
    Figure 1

    Vases depicting “La fuite d’Elise” (left) and “Tom et Evangeline” (right), attributed to Hache et PépinLehalleur, Vierzon, France; retailed by Haughwout and Dailey, New York, New York, 1853–1870. Biscuit and glazed hard-paste porcelain. H. 19". (Courtesy, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, Florida.)

  • Figure 2
    Figure 2

    Charles Bour, “Tom et Evangeline,” lithograph, from Harriet Beecher Stowe, La case de l’oncle Tom, Paris, 1853. (Courtesy, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, Connecticut.)

  • Figure 3
    Figure 3

    Joseph Bettannier, “La fuite d’Elise,” lithograph, from Harriet Beecher Stowe, La case de l’oncle Tom, Paris, 1853. (Courtesy, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center.)

  • Figure 4
    Figure 4

    Map of France showing locations of Limoges, Vierzon, and Paris. (Map, Wynne Patterson.)

  • Figure 5
    Figure 5

    Porcelain vase exhibited by Haughwout and Dailey at the Crystal Palace Exposition, 1853. From Benjamin Silliman, World of Science, Art, and Industry, Illustrated from Examples in the New-York Exhibition, 1853–54 (New York: Putnam, 1854), p. 129.

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    Figure 6

    Nathaniel Orr and Company, “Saleroom, Main Floor, Haughwout Building, New York.” Wood engraving, reproduced in Cosmopolitan Art Journal 3 (June 1859).

  • Figure 7
    Figure 7

    Vase depicting “Tom et Evangeline,” attributed to Hache et Pépin-Lehalleur, Vierzon, France; retailed by Haughwout and Dailey, New York, New York, 1853–1870. Biscuit and glazed hard-paste porcelain. H. 19". (Illustrated in Stéphane Faniel, Le XIXe siècle français [Paris: Hachette, 1957], p. 92.)

  • Figure 8
    Figure 8

    Vase depicting “La fuite d’Elise,” attributed to Hache et PépinLehalleur, Vierzon, France; retailed by Haughwout and Dailey, New York, New York, 1853–1870. Biscuit and glazed hard-paste porcelain. H. 19". (Courtesy, Collection of Brooke Eastlick; photo, Gavin Ashworth.)

  • Figure 9
    Figure 9

    Vase depicting “Tom et Evangeline,” attributed to Hache et Pépin-Lehalleur, Vierzon, France; retailed by Haughwout and Dailey, New York, New York, 1853–1870. Biscuit and glazed hard-paste porcelain. H. 19". (Courtesy, Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum; photo, Lawrence Mott.)

  • Figure 10
    Figure 10

    Vases depicting “Tom et Evangeline” (left) and “La fuite d’Elise” (right), attributed to Hache et PépinLehalleur, Vierzon, France; retailed by Haughwout and Dailey, New York, New York, 1853–1870. Biscuit and glazed hard-paste porcelain. H. 19". (Courtesy, Collection of Brooke Eastlick; photo, Gavin Ashworth.)

  • Figure 11
    Figure 11

    Vase depicting “Tom et Evangeline,” attributed to Hache et Pépin-Lehalleur, Vierzon, France; retailed by Haughwout and Dailey, New York, New York, 1853–1870. Biscuit and glazed hard-paste porcelain. H. 19". (Courtesy, Collection of Brooke Eastlick; photo, courtesy of Freeman’s Auction House, Philadelphia.)

  • Figure 12
    Figure 12

    Vases depicting “La fuite d’Elise” (left) and “Tom et Evangeline” (right), attributed to Hache et PépinLehalleur, Vierzon, France; retailed by Haughwout and Dailey, New York, New York, 1853–1870. Biscuit and glazed hard-paste porcelain. H. 11 1/2". (Courtesy, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center.)

  • Figure 13
    Figure 13

    Vase depicting “Tom et Evangeline,” attributed to Hache et Pépin-Lehalleur, Vierzon, France; retailed by Haughwout and Dailey, New York, New York, 1853–1870. Biscuit and glazed hard-paste porcelain. H. 11 1/2". (Courtesy, Collection of Brooke Eastlick; photo, Gavin Ashworth.)

  • Figure 14
    Figure 14

    Vases depicting “Tom et Evangeline” (left) and “La fuite d’Elise” (right), attributed to Hache et PépinLehalleur, Vierzon, France; retailed by Haughwout and Dailey, New York, New York, 1853–1870. Biscuit and glazed hard-paste porcelain. H. 11 1/2". (Courtesy, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.)

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    Figure 15

    Vases depicting “La fuite d’Elise” (left) and “Tom et Evangeline” (right) attributed to Hache et PépinLehalleur, Vierzon, France; retailed by Haughwout and Dailey, New York, New York, 1853–1870. Biscuit and glazed hard-paste porcelain. H. 11 1/2". (Courtesy, Baltimore Museum of Art, Albert Cousins Memorial Fund, and purchased as the gift of Ann Bosworth; photo, Mitro Hood.)

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    Figure 16

    Candlesticks depicting “Tom et Evangeline” (left) and “La fuite d’Elise” (right), attributed to Hache et PépinLehalleur, Vierzon, France; retailed by Haughwout and Dailey, New York, New York, 1853–1870. Biscuit and glazed hard-paste porcelain. H. 8 1/2". (Courtesy, Collection of Brooke Eastlick; photo, Gavin Ashworth.)