Oct 24, 2009
Issue 724
Tommy Dreiling of Brooklyn asks these four questions about light jade blue:
HI
01. In the cased pieces Randy said they are Light Blue Jade over Flint White. I thought they were Celeste Blue over Flint White.
02. I have always thought that there must be a non-cased Light Blue Jade color. In Dimitroff page 251
Fig. 10.131 there is an ACB of Mirror Black over Light Blue Jade. That piece would seem to be a solid blue, not cased.
03. It looks to me that when Light Blue Jade is used as decoration on Verre de Soie Dimitroff page 235
Fig. 10.85 and as petals in floral stoppers Dimitroff page 256 Fig. 10.146 that it must be a solid color.
04. The Stevens and Williams Jades are all clearly Alabaster with something else added to make it a color. The Carder Jades are clearly totally different type of glass. Plum Jade is a cased glass and Dark Blue Jade is clearly not an Alabaster based glass. The S&W method seems more uniform to me that the Carder Jades. Any thoughts as to why Carder went such a different direction?