Check with the Critics

The critics’ sneak-peak reviews are in!

“Fabulous, outstanding, incomparable, stimulating, awesome, stupendous, astounding and phenomenal!”

Don’t miss it. You’ll be sorry that you did!

Register today for the Carder Steuben Symposium! Registration deadline is September 9th.

Club Auction

Symposium Auction Chair, Mark Chamovitz reminds us that you only have five remaining days to place an item(s) into the dinner auction. This will be the final notification. Items will not be accepted for this years auction after September 10, 2013. Please contact Mark Chamovitz with any questions. MChamovitz@PITAirport.com

Cire Perdue

Symposium presenter, Debbie Tarsitano says

I am finding out so many interesting facts about Carder’s transition into Cire Perdue. I am looking forward to telling the group about it from an artists point of view. Quite a remarkable transition for Carder.

Webmaster’s Selection

This is a shape 7169 vase in Lace Glass. Lace Glass is made with stripes of alternate colors such as white and black or white and green. Lace Glass seems to be made by a Cintra process but with the addition of a chemical to create bubbles. MDK

Green and White Lace Glass Vase with Colorless Foot, c. 1930

Shape #7169

10 Pillar

10 ¼ inches high

from Collector’s Favorites, Number 65, March, 2004 by Robert Mueller

“A variation of Cintra developed by Frederick Carder was his short lived ‘Lace’ Cintra.

“In this technique two different colors are used in the striping pattern. One color is picked up first in the gather, then the second color is picked up. Mr. Carder used several color combinations including white-black, green-white, and pink-white. One very big difference in this type of Cintra from other Cintra applications is that the smooth surface is inside the piece, due to the layer of crystal flashed inside, while the outside is rough and uncased.

“While Cintra pieces are often found with small bubbles or none at all, Lace glass, by comparison, contains many more bubbles than the typical Cintra.”

2013 Carder Steuben Club annual Symposium will be held at The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY from September 19-21, 2013. The festivities will begin with Frederick Carder’s 150th birthday celebration on the evening of September 18, 2013.

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