Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Yesterday we set out a pair of “ginger jars” and described how we were able to discover the pattern from the www.cardersteuben.org website.

In response, Scott Hansen of Briarcliff Manor, New York wrote to chide me for calling these ginger jars. He doesn’t see shape #5000 fitting the ginger jar mold. In response, I tongue in cheek said perhaps because of their size we could call one a flour canister and the other a sugar canister.

However, I also received a most interesting thought from John Styler of Prospect Heights, Illinois.

Here again I am sticking my neck out. It seems odd these beautiful ginger jar shaped pieces have other than glass lids. Could they be especially made Cinerary Urns. It was popular back in the good old days to keep ones loved one ashes in a beautiful container on the mantel. I see one twice a year when I visit an old friend who loves her Steuben urn because it contains her mothers remains. Her father is less fortunate, his are in a large Cloisonne piece.

I know Fenton made such pieces.

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2011 Carder Steuben Club annual Symposium will be held at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY from September 15-17, 2011.