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This glass vase was designed by Frederick Carder and made by the Steuben Division of Corning Glass Works at Corning in New York in the United States of America around 1920.

The vase is made of semi-opaque pink glass streaked and marbled, with spots and splashes containing air-bubbles. It is inscribed 'STEUBEN' on a scroll across a fleur-de-lys.

Born in Kingswinford in Staffordshire in 1863, Carder lived and worked within a few miles of his birthplace for the first 40 years of his life. At the age of 17, he began his career in glass with Steven & Williams as a designer at their factory in Brierley Hill. In 1902 he was selected, by South Staffordshire County Council, to visit and report on Continental glass centres, and asked to make a similar fact-finding tour of the USA the following year. In 1903 he founded the Steuben Glass Works in Corning, which he managed until 1932.

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• Online ID: 000-180-001-082-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland Part 2
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  A.1982.871
• Date: Around 1920
  c. 1920
  
• Material: Glass, semi-opaque pink, streaked and marbled, spots and splashes containing air-bubbles. Inscription: STEUBEN [on a scroll across a fleur-de-lys, acid-etched with a stamp]
  
• Dimensions: 159 mm H x 147 mm D
  
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• Subject: European glass
  
• Who: Frederick Carder (Designer)
  Steuben Division of Corning Glass Works, Corning, New York (Maker)
  
• Where: U.S.A., New York, Corning
  
• Event:
• Description: Vase of semi-opaque pink glass streaked and marbled, with spots and splashes containing air-bubbles: American, Corning, by Steuben Division of Corning Glass Works, designed by F. Carder, c. 1920
  
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