Feb 24, 2009
Issue 480
David Chadwick-Brown of San Diego does.
I would like to add to the discussion that Rande has so helpfully opened up. First, as to the greens: I have a covered compote, supported by four pinched elements, akin to those in goblet #5120 – two are celeste and two are the color of the body of the compote. It was sold to me as Sea Foam Green, which according to Ericson is as light a green as is possible before it qualifies as clear crystal. Moonlight and Wisteria and, perhaps, Citron, are other palest-of-the-pale. Then I heard of Sea Green, which, if I recall correctly, Bobby Rockwell once said was a very late color, as Steuben was moving into clear crystal only. I have a grotesque of that, and there is one presently on eBay. Because I had conflated Sea Foam and Sea Green, and though I had mistaken the color of my compote, I started calling it window glass green. I wouldn’t be surprise if Sea Foam and window-glass are not one in the same. Now I’ll return to designating it as Sea Foam.
And as for the blue jades, mention has been made of a middle hue between light blue (of which I have several variant tints) and dark blue (of which all of mine are consistent in shade). In my mind there has been a different blue, which was called by the dealer as ‘royal blue.’ I have a berry bowl, with signature, in a blue that is just a touch more gray than usual. The same dealer also sold Dick Bright a two pillar vase in the same shade of jade. If memory serves, it was only later that they actually found the signature far up inside the foot. In any case, it was not until I put my four inch bowl next to my black over blue jade pagoda lamp base that I realized that this middle blue was, in fact, the ground used in some ACB pieces. It is not the light blue jade, as pictured in Gardner’s Plate XXIV – C but a different hue. So much for the blues in this night.
David