A wish from a great glass artist

I would just like to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving. We have a lot to be grateful for. Thank you for a great experience in Corning. I will never forget it.

All the best
Debbie Tarsitano

Thank you, Gerry Getman

from Rande Bly

Thank you Gerry Getman for your support and additional information on the Tyndall effect in opalescent glass. Yes Carder did use this phenomena in his Mousselene pieces and in Cardinal Red. Carder tried for many years to make Jade Red. It was impossible with his Alabaster base. He switched to an opalescent base enacting the Tyndall effect with moderate success but the glass was absolutely uncontrollable. Selenium/ cadmium based glass starts out yellow, turns orange, and then turns red at the perfect moment of the heating process. Add the opalescent and you have a mess trying to keep the solution suspended as it “ran” from the heat. Talk is this color is harder to achieve than Rouge Flambe was.

Tiffany was doing a tremendous amount of experimentation with opalescent glass but never reached success with the deep red pieces. When I spoke with Dudley Browne of Julia’s he was in agreement that the only one to achieve it in deep red was Carder. Cardinal Red was a color and glass type unique to Steuben just as was Rouge Flambe and Mandarin Yellow. Dudley has had one of these plates.

Four rumors were started by this glass. First was the rumor that Carder had made a selenium jade. Second that Steuben produced a Cadmium Ruby also. Third that Carder had produced a transparent Rouge Flambe and fourth that there was a rare glass called “Rouge Flamme” . Funny thing about each of these rumors is they all hold some truth. It has been very difficult to untangle this can of worms.

Reality simply is that Carder was the only one in the world to produce Cardinal Red. What is the word I am looking for…oh yes…genius.