Friday afternoon, May 4, 2012

David Goldstein of Naples, Florida tells us his Rouge Flambé story

I am fortunate enough to have owned four 8″ Rouge Flambé plates that were perfect and one 10″ Rouge Flambé plate that was also perfect. The 8″ plates were part of a set of twelve, but I could only afford two of them at the time. I have no idea what happened to the rest of the set.

The 10″ plate is the one with a story. When I purchased it the seller had no idea what it was but I thought it was Rouge. Unfortunately, there was no documentation that showed that Rouge plates were made in a 10″ size so it was hard to prove that the plate was in fact Rouge Flambé. I kept it for several years until I found an old Steuben ad showing a large (10″) Rouge Flambé plate being used as service plate under another 8″ Steuben plate. I was now able to document the fact that Steuben made 10″ Rouge Flambé plates, and I sold the plate shortly thereafter.

Now if I could only get them all back……

David Goldstein

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

You might enjoy watching this link showing a current studio glass artist and the process of blowing glass. In the interest of full disclosure I must point out that Willow is my wife’s nephew.

http://www.soulshine-arts.com/#!video

www.cardersteubenclub.org

2012 Carder Steuben Club annual Symposium will be held at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY from September 20-22, 2012.

Any opinions expressed by participants to the Gazelle Gazette e-mail newsletters are the opinions of the authors and are not endorsed by or the opinions of the Carder Steuben Club.©

Click here to unsubscribe.