The Beginnings of Intarsia

Just a note to David Chadwick-Brown. I was the one that coaxed that Intarsia vase from Kitty about 10 years ago. Not being a large Steuben collector myself I felt it was more appropriate in someone else’s collection. I am happy to see it has fallen into good hands. I have been lucky enough to have found some extremely rare and gorgeous examples of the best of Steuben. But I would really like to have as a keeper for my collection is a Tiffany blue example. If anyone wants to part with one please keep me in mind. I know where the best example in existence is and it’s sitting in the house right in Corning New York but unfortunately it has a bad crack in it.
Norman Skolnick

Yesterday’s story from David Chadwick-Brown that led to Norman’s comments above:

The amethyst and Bristol yellow vase has been mentioned in the Gazette, a few years ago. Here is the provenance, in the auction house accompanying documentation, in a letter from Kitty Erlacher.
“This was purchased by me…. The person I bought th[is] from…told me that her father worked together with Frederick Carder at the Steuben Factory in Corning, N.Y. …the above mentioned vase was the very first “Intarsia” piece. That it was “Experimental,” and that Mr. Carder gave this piece to her father.” Dated July 2005