Carder Designed Pyrex Teapots

One of Frederick Carder’s glass-related patents was a design patent for shape 3298 tea pot. This tea pot was made in Pyrex glass as were two other tea pots he designed, shapes 1758 and 1957. Numerous examples of all three can be found in the Shape Index on the Club website. Pyrex was first introduced in 1915 and these tea pots were sold in the mid-1920s. Sometimes Pyrex advertisements also contained Steuben pieces or advertising material for Steuben. There is a website, www.corellecorner.com, which contains a significant amount of material related to Pyrex. From the home page of that website, click on the “Advertising & Brochures” tab on the left hand side and then click on the “1927 Booklet – Pyrex: Foods Actually Bake Better This Way.” Scroll down about 3/4ths of the way (passing a photo of the 1957 and 3298 teapots) and you will see a section of that Pyrex booklet devoted to Steuben entitled “Delightful Aids to Hospitality” with an accompanying tableau of Steuben tableware. (Author’s note: 2015 is the 100th anniversary of the introduction of Pyrex and the Corning Museum of Glass and the Rakow Research Library are planning an exhibition to mark the anniversary.)

Scott Hansen,
Stamford, CT