Symposium

September 15-17 in Corning, NY

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Carder Birthday Invitation

The Carder Steuben Club

Cordially invites you to attend a

Carder Birthday Celebration Reception

and Glass Show

To celebrate Frederick Carder’s 153rd birthday

and to honor

Tom and Peetie Dimitroff

for their many years of hosting the

Annual Carder Dinner

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Carder Room – Corning Radisson Hotel

5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Cash bar and hors d’oeuvres

Remarks at 6:00 p.m.

Black tie optional

Tom and Peetie Dimitroff

The registration fee for the Carder Steuben Symposium covers attendance at this event.

Anyone else wishing to attend may do so by an RSVP no later than September 2.

Tickets are $25 per person, payable in advance. Checks should be made payable to Carder Steuben Club
and sent to: Bonnie Salzman, 1501 Harborough Rd., Richmond VA 23238

Rouge Flambe Opalescent or Opaque?

from Rande Bly

We do have conflicting information as to whether Rouge Flambe is translucent or opaque. The CMOG museum has it listed as both. They have 11 pieces showing at their web site. Two are listed as translucent and two are listed as opaque. The other seven do not say. Some are dated 1916 to 1926. The majority of them dated 1916 are shape numbers in the 6 thousands. This is impossible. They did not reach those shape numbers until 1926. This is the source of some of the misinformation about the 1915-1917 date for Rouge Flambe. Gardner shows in color plate XXIII-A five pieces and has them all correctly dated as 1926. You can match the shape numbers to be in the six thousands.

On the Carder Steuben web site they show 12 pieces. Nine pieces carry a six thousand shape number which dates 1926. The other three carry shape numbers in the two thousands. Some people may have guessed these to be around 1916 which is fitting for those numbers, but they were also made right at 1926 just using a previous shape. This was another factor in the misinformation.

Might I suggest that Rouge Flambe bounces back and forth in appearance between a translucent and an opaque glass. It is technically a translucent glass that takes on a strong opaque appearance under certain lighting and different thicknesses. The transparency from piece to piece varied due to the extreme difficulty in manufacture because of the need for just the right amount of heat and perfect timing at the fire. The color varied from red to reddish-orange. CMOG museum lists some of their pieces as reddish-orange. So far in today’s time the deeper red and the more opaque the better. Gardner explains that was what Carder was striving for. My opinion is any piece of Rouge Flambe is good to own. Carder was the only one that made a glass that could appear both translucent and opaque.The color and varying translucency of Rouge Flambe was unique to Carder and no other maker was able to duplicate it. I have shown this unique phenomena extensively with my Cadmium Ruby Plate which clearly makes it more of a cousin to Rouge Flambe than Selenium Red.

Today I will show what CMOG museum has listed on their web site as reddish-orange translucent Rouge Flambe. David Chadwick-Brown has a piece of Rouge Flambe that used to be on Carder’s Desk that Greg Merkle has tested that was a total flop at the fire. Carder kept it there to remind himself just how difficult this color was to get the timing right on. You can see the different transparencies all in the same piece. I will show it also. So…. I cannot say that Carder’s Rouge Flambe is opaque

Symposium Notes

In 2015, Kirsty Buchanan became Curator of Collections at The Rockwell Museum. This year, she helps the Museum celebrate its 40th Anniversary! The Rockwell has been eagerly reinstalling every gallery, creating a new visitor check-in area, revitalizing the museum store and celebrating with exciting new exhibitions and events. Kirsty has curated the collective reinterpretation of the permanent galleries, and has assisted the Museum with obtaining a coveted Smithsonian Affiliation. Kirsty will trace the roots of the Museum, which started with a gift from Bob and Hertha Rockwell, to the present with “The Rockwell Museum: Treasures of the American Experience” at the Carder Steuben Symposium, September 17 – 19.