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bjbj The blue vase in the center of this case in the bottom shelf, is an iridescent type
of glassware, which Frederick Carder called aurene. He made it in gold, as in the basket
you see in the upper left, and he made it in this beautiful blue. Carder was an Englishman
who had been trained at Stevens & Williams in ::Staffordger: area of England. He came
to Corning in 1903, at the request of Thomas Hawkes who wanted to set up his own glass
company to make blanks for his glass cutting company. He called it Steuben Glass Works,
because the name Corning was already taken, and Steuben was the name of the county in
which Corning was located. Carder made a huge variety of colored glass (you can see in this
case examples of a good many of them), and he used color combinations which were quite
innovative at the time, as well as decoration. Some of his work is frequently compared to
that of Louis Comfort Tiffany at Tiffany Studios, but Carder had a larger range of color than
Tiffany, and really quite a different design sense. The blue aurene is particularly popular
with collectors, and I think it is particularly beautiful. If you are interested in the variety
of Carder s work, and you d like to see more of it, there is an entire gallery devoted
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