The answer to yesterday’s question about why shape #211b isn’t shape #2622–

Comparisons of this type are often difficult to sort out. The drawing for the 211 indicates that it was blown out into scallops around the bottom of the vase but, obviously, that isn’t always the case. We don’t have an example on the website that matches the drawing for the 211. The 211 was available plain and also with “a” or “b” decoration. Decoration style “a” was a piece that was machine threaded while “b” decoration was the same but the threading was pulled up into “festoons”. The indication in the factory records for shape 2622 was that it was just available plain. I concluded at one time that perhaps Carder couldn’t keep good track of his earlier shapes and developed a new shape that was essentially the same as an earlier one. The records are specific, for example, that the 6989 vase was a duplicate of shape 7008. Those two would have been designed rather closely in time, however.

Marshall Ketchum

Original Question–

We have a Gold Aurene piece currently on exhibit at the Forsyth Galleries identical in shape to the piece shown below as 2622. (Two thumbnails are attached.) However, our piece is labeled on the bottom with “Aurene 211b,” and I verified that number with the listing for shape 211 on the shape index on the CSC website. Can anyone point out the differences in these two shapes to me? I want to make sure that our records are accurate!

Thank you,

Amanda Dyer
University Art Galleries,
Texas A&M University