Saturday, March 05, 2011

Looking for the classics? Start at a museum. Frederick Carder found his inspiration at the museums of Europe.

Tommy Dreiling of Brooklyn expands on this in America.

HI – The Newark is an excellent museum. I haven’t been there in a while but my last trip they had some “Bizarre Pattern” stemware on a display of table setting from different American periods. It represented the Art Deco period. You can see some examples in Dimitroff page 171 Fig. 7.57

Tommy Dreiling

Ulysses Grant, senior curator, at the Newark Museum shared with us one of their classical shapes they bought eons ago for $35. Scott Coots of Rochester, NY comments.

Alan, It appears that the Newark Museum’s Blue Aurene is shape number 3285. I don’t think that I spent $35.00 on mine though.

T. Scott Coots

Rochester, NY

Then as a follow up to the discussion of some of the current Steuben stemware being produced in Germany, Corning’s Jim Sutterfield adds some information.

Alan, I would suggest the glass made at Steuben NY is a lead composition and the one from Germany in stemware is not. Jim

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