Rouge Flambé Vase
Jane Shadel Spillman, Curator of American Glass
Friday, April 15, 2005
The Museum has recently received as a gift a group of glasses designed and/or made by Frederick Carder at Steuben Glass Works in Corning. Among these is a decorated Rouge Flambé vase which is one of three known. The opaque red Rouge Flambé was one of the most difficult colors that Carder tried to make, and very few pieces reached the market.
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Sports Cup Depicting Gladiators (signed by M. Licinius Diceus)
Dr. David Whitehouse, Executive Director and Curator of Ancient and Islamic Glass
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Early mold-blown glasses made in the western Roman Empire include cups and beakers depicting gladiatorial contests and chariot racing. These popular sports drew huge crowds to the amphitheater and the circus. "Sports cups" were blown in two-part molds and decorated with pairs of fighting gladiators or charioteers, identified by inscriptions.
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Beaker with Hunting Scene
Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, Curator of European Glass
Saturday, January 01, 2005
The subject of the engraved scene is a hunt on horseback or
Parforcejagd, as it is called in German. In this form of hunting, a deer was chased by dogs. When the exhausted stag fell to the ground, it was killed with a long hunting knife...Several features make this engraving special among the countless 19th-century depictions of hunting scenes.
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