Description: Three clear glass signed pieces of Steuben. The tallest vase with a swirled base, the other a crystal bud vase in trumpet form with side prunts. The round bowl with applied curled handle. All pieces are engraved Steuben on bottom.


History: Engraver Thomas G. Hawkes and English glassmaker Frederick Carder founded Steuben Glass Works in Corning, N.Y., in 1903. Carder was appointed artistic designer, production supervisor, and marketing director. Throughout his career, he continually experimented with innovative colors and techniques, like layering, acid-etching, and acid-cutting his glass. In addition to introducing handmade, novel, art nouveau pieces, Carder also invented a new type of iridescent glass which, combining the Latin word for gold and part of a Middle English word for sheen, he named Aurene. Aurene, by a much-abbreviated process, imitates the luminous patina that frequently gilds Roman glass vessels exposed to centuries of contact with humidity or mineral matter. Carder reproduced this iridescence by spraying clear, malleable glass with a metallic chloride, then heating it in a special manner. Thomas S. Beuchner, director of the Corning Museum of Glass in 1957, observed that this caused the glass surface to crackle into millions of tiny lines “that reflect light like a layer of oil floating on water.†Although at the time Louis Comfort Tiffany was also producing a similar iridescent glass called Favrile, many consider Carder’s to be more lustrous. Aurene was so distinctive, in fact, that in 1904 its technology earned a patent. The following year, Carder added cobalt blue to the basic recipe, producing an array of Blue Aurene bowls, vases, decanters, perfume bottles, and candlesticks. He produced a smaller number of these items in green, red and brown Aurene shades as well. All his Aurenes enjoyed wide commercial success. Steuben Glass Works continued producing art nouveau glass until the advent of World War I.

Provenance: FL Estate


Dimensions: Weight (Pounds & Ounces) = 4.5 | Height(in) = 12 | Width(in) = 12 | Depth(in) = 12

Size of Artwork(in): 6" Tallest


Artist Name: Steuben


Medium: Glass


Circa: Circa 1960

All three in very good condition.