Did Carder Do Burmese?

David Chadwick-Brown’s Collection

The champagne (left–second row) is marked, but no line drawing found. The champagne is both a mystery color and shape, albeit marked ‘Steuben.’ Creamer on silver(center 2nd row) is Hawkes.

I purchase the Burmese plate (rear right), on the assumption that it might be Steuben, and it does exactly match, by nesting, with a 9 inch selenium plate. Marshall Ketchum, however, could find no record that Carder made a Burmese plate, but did find mention of other shapes in which Burmese was employed.

Green hexagonal architectural tile(front row right).

The bottle(2nd row, right) was a puzzle purchase – not black on Bristol, rosa, or topaz. Rande Bly’s sharp eye for color has, I am sure, solved the problem. He directed me to page 82 in Gardner, where, after a discussion of Gold Ruby, Gardner writes: “Other Gold Ruby colors made at Steuben by adding coloring oxides to the basic ruby batch were Purple Gold Ruby (gold and cobalt), Amethyst Ruby (gold and manganese), Brownish-Yellow Ruby (gold and iron), and Cinnamon Ruby (gold and uranium).” When Marshall Ketchum assigned the nomenclature for the website, he made provision for a brownish-yellow gold ruby as a possible color, but none (including mine) has been entered there. The only other of the same color I have seen pictured – also a toilet jar – is in the New Orleans Museum. I have black threaded bottles in both Bristol and Rosa, and it is neither.

Green jade (front row center has an overcoat of alabaster, making it a less intense green.