ROUGE FLAMBÉ
By

Bob Mueller

Mr. Carder’s Rouge Flambé pieces demonstrate his great admiration for capturing the classical Chinese style.

Mr. Carder being very fond of the great workmanship would produce a few examples of the Chinese porcelain.

With the Rouge Flambé, Mr. Carder would perfect his examples of Chinese Red Porcelain. Even though this type of glass had a delicacy that led to a short shelf life we can see great examples perfecting a most difficult color.

One very important thing about Mr. Carder’s Rouge Flambé is like most glass, Rouge Flambé can vary greatly in color from very bold reds to pieces that have an orangeish tint to them.

With the instability of the formula, Mr. Carder did have problems with this glass breakage, cracks were reasons that this glass had a short history at Steuben Glass.

When we look at Mr. Carder’s glass, and then look at Chinese porcelain, they do look a lot alike. The shapes also show great clarity that Mr. Carder made, compared to the Chinese.

If any collector ever has the chance to purchase a piece of Rouge Flambé, they should do so. This glass shows such a different side of Mr. Carder than most of his other glass he made. It greatly shows the influence the Chinese had on him.

Also, as if Mr. Carder couldn’t be proud enough of his creation of Rouge Flambé by itself, but he did put that final touch of his on his Rouge Flambé. He added the decorated Gold Aurene to just a very few pieces. There are only about five or six pieces Could Mr. Carder have done anything to top that?

Bob Mueller
Osseo, Minnesota
June 3, 2010