Early 20th Century Carder Steuben Alabaster Cast Foot Bowl, No. 112 – 1 Piece

Title: Early 20th Century Carder Steuben Cast Foot Alabaster Bowl.

Offered is a Carder Steuben alabaster bowl, features flared rosaline rim, raised on a plum jade cast foot, unmarked (Many Steuben Vases were not marked but had a paper label that at times were lost…).

Manufacturer: Steuben Glass Works.
Place: Corning, Massachussetts.
Period: Carder Period – 1920s-1930s.
Shape: 112.
Color: Alabaster, Coraline, Plum Jade.

Measures: 9 D (5 D Base) x 5 H inches.
Approximate weight: 2 pounds, 3 ounces.

Provenance: San Francisco, California estate of Charles S. LaFollette (1929-2022) by descent, Charles D. LaFollette (1900-1982), a former vice president and a director emeritus of the Corning Glass Works.

Mr. LaFollette joined Corning in 1929. He was elected a director in 1946 and financial vice president in 1957. He retired in 1964 as honorary vice president and was elected director emeritus in 1970.

Mr. LaFollette was a trustee of the Corning Museum of Glass and the Corning Glass Works Foundation. He was also a director emeritus of the Dow Corning Corporation and served on the advisory board of the Salvation Army.

He graduated from Wabash College and the Graduate School of Business Administration at Harvard University, where he became assistant dean. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; two sons, Charles S. of Manhattan and Gerry C. of Indianapolis; a daughter, Elizabeth McInnis of Stamford, Conn., and nine grandchildren. (NY Times Feb. 3, 1982).

Note: The Corning Museum of Glass also credits gifts (or artifacts) from the adult children of Charles D. Lafollette in memory of their father.

About the maker: Steuben was founded in 1903 by Fredrick C. Carder and his partner Thomas G. Hawkes. Carder had been designing and producing glass in England for the firm of Stevens and Williams. Hawkes owned a large glass cutting factory in Corning, New York. Initially, the designers at Steuben followed styles that were popular at retailers such as Tiffany & Company, but the company took an artistic turn in the 1930s. In 1933, Steuben created a prismatic crystal formula that could capture, reflect and refract light unlike anything else in the world. During the Art Deco movement, Steuben became best known for its unique work in modernist clear glass.” (Dixie Art Colony Foundation)