Lot Details
Lot 168
Tiffany & Co. Sterling Silver Mounted Frederick Carder for Stevens & Williams Art Nouveau Wheel-Engraved Glass Claret Jug
The glass circa 1900, the silver 1902-1907
Baluster-form engraved with water lilies, the neck with clover. Height 11 inches.
Frederick Carder's work for Stevens & Williams epitomizes the Art Nouveau style in glass. This claret jug is similar to other designs by Carder of the period used in his "rock crystal" pieces, the drawings which are in the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. The "rock crystal" technique had been pioneered by Thomas Webb and used here to great effect; the process was very expensive requiring a workman to cut out large pieces of the glass before passing it to a copper-wheel engraver who added the fine detail and finally the whole was brush polished on a wheel to bring back the brilliant shine. Carder left Stevens & Williams and moved to America where he co-founded the Steuben Glass Works in New York, and ran the company from 1903 until 1932.
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Additional Notes & Condition Report
Glass - appears to be generally good condition; no apparent hairlines, chips, or cracks, etc.; no apparent stress cracks visible where the handle terminals contact the body of jug; the bottom with a ring of white residue which may or may not clean away; some clouding and water staining to interior of body, some of which is visible to the exterior; small nicks to high points including to base as expected from age, but not of consequence; the glass marked with SW fleur de lys mark
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