Friday, June 24, 2011

Continuing the discussion on casing. Marshall Ketchum of Genoa, New York states.

Alan

Carder’s formula notebook has two interesting colors. The first is “white for flint” and the second is “flint white blue”. “White for flint” is almost certainly what we now call Flint White and “flint white blue” is the casing color for what many of us call Light Blue Jade. When an object such as a vase is made in Light Blue Jade it is cased with Flint White Blue on the inside and out with a layer of Flint White sandwiched in the middle. This layer of Flint White can often be seen at an edge or in the pontil.

It is not really clear what the color is on the stopper in question. I have a 1455 Verre de Soie perfume with what I have been calling a Light Blue Jade stopper. When you put the stopper up against a “real” piece of Light Blue Jade it is lighter, noticeably lighter. The stopper is solid rather than cased and doesn’t seem to be a solid Flint White Blue. I am not sure what color it is an may be something entirely different. Also, the color used on the flower petals of your stopper may be something different such as some variation of Turquoise.

Marshall

Then Michael Krumme is still looking for more clarification on casing regarding the flower stem perfume stopper.

Okay… so, reading between the lines of Tony’s response, am I correct then that cased glass flowers were applied to the stopper, and that’s what the exhibition description was trying to say when it said that the stoppers were made using a cased glass process?

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