glassware manufacturers: A to B

Awashima Glass Co
Tokyo, Japan (1956 - )
Masakichi Awashima. Mould-blown glassware

Baccarat, Compagnie des Cristalleries de
Baccarat, Lunéville, France (1823 - )
Formerly Verreries Renaut (1764), then Verreries de Baccarat (1768), Verreries de Ste Anne (1773), then Verreries de Vonêche à Baccarat (1816) before taking present name. Jean-Baptiste Toussaint (1851-58), Paul Michaut (1867-83), Georges Chevallier  website

Bacchus & Son, George
Birmingham, England (19th Century)
Hand-blown glass, particularly cased, flashed & transfer-printed. William T Gillinder

Bagley & Co
Knottingley, England (1871 - 1975)
Originally Bagley, Wild & Co (bottle manufacturers), then Bagley & Co (from 1890). Traded as The Crystal Glass Co from 1912 (coloured "crystaltint" glass introduced 1933). Alexander H Williamson (mid 1930s) (23 designs registered from 1923 to 1938)

Bakalowits & Söhne
Vienna, Austria (1845 - c 1914)
Commisioning retailer from Loetz, Kralik, Meyr's Neffe etc. Otto Prutscher, Gisela Von Falke, Jutta Sika, Antoinette Krasnik, Joan Fomin, Josef Hoffmann, Kolo Moser, Emile Hoppe, Hans Vollmer, Hans Bolek

Bakewell, Page & Bakewell
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (early 19th Century)
Benjamin Bakewell, Benjamin Page. Later became Bakewell, Pears & Co. Manufactured first crystal chandelier in US. Earliest known patent for pressed glassby John P Bakewell in 1825

Ballarin, Mario & Francesco
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Hand-blown & engraved artistic glassware

Ballarin, Vetreria Artistica
Murano, Venice, Italy (1483 - )
One of the oldest glass-making families in Murano. Hand-blown traditional-style artistic glassware  website

Barbini, Fratelli
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Engraved glassware & venetian mirrors. Connection to below (if any) unknown

Barbini, Vetreria Alfredo
Murano, Venice, Italy (1952 - )
Alfredo Barbini (1952-87), Napoleone Martinuzzi (1960s), Flavio Barbini (Alfredo's son; 1968-)

Barolac
London, England (c 1935 - 1950s)
Trademark registered in 1935 by John Jenkins & Son, importers & retailers of glassware. Mostly opalescent or frosted pressed glass, manufactured in Czechoslovakia by the Josef Inwald company

Barovier, Artisti
Murano, Venice, Italy (1895 - 1920)
Formerly Fratelli Barovier (1878-95). Giuseppe Barovier (1900-1920), Vittorio Zecchin (1914), Teodoro Wolf-Ferrari (1914), Umberto Bellotto (1920). Became Vetreria Artistica Barovier (1920)

Barovier, Fratelli
Murano, Venice, Italy (1878 - 95)
Antonio Salviati,Giovanni/Nicolo Barovier. Became Artisti Barovier (1895)

Barovier, Vetreria Artistica
Murano, Venice, Italy (1920 - 36)
Ercole Barovier (1925-28), Nicolò Barovier (1925-30). Merged with S.A.I.A.R. Ferro Toso to form Ferro Toso Barovier (1936)

Barovier & Toso
Murano, Venice, Italy (1942 - )
Formerly Ferro Toso Barovier (1936) then became Barovier Toso & C (1939) and finally Barovier & Toso. Artemio/Decio Toso, Ercole Barovier (1939-72), Angelo Barovier (1951-), Matteo Thum, Noti Massari, Toni Zuccheri (1984), Renato/Decio/Mario/Piero Toso. Carlo Tosi "Caramea", Dino Toso, Luigi Visentin  website (Italy)  website (Czech Republic)

Barovier, Seguso & Ferro
Murano, Venice, Italy (c 1930s)
Flavio Poli (1934-36). Relationship to Vetreria Artistica Barovier (if any) unknown

Bathgate Glass Co (see West Lothian Glassworks)

Belmont Glass Works (see Gammon, Thomas)

Bermondsey Glass
Bermondsey, London, England (c 1900 - 1914)
Guy Underwood

Beránek
Škrdlovice, Czech Republic (1940 - )
Emanuel Beránek and his three brothers. Nationalised c 1948, and traded for 43 years as Škrdlovice Glassworks (Škrdlovicka Sklárská Hut). Milena Velíšková (1950-60), Maria Stálíková (1940s-50s), Jan Kotík (1950s), Jan & Jindrich Beránek (sons of Emanuel) (1950s), Jirina Zertova, Lubomír Blecha, Vladimír Jelínek (all 1950s-60s), Jaroslav Svoboda & Jarmila Svobodova (1960s), Pavel Jezek, Stanislav Libenský, Ladislav Oliva, Ladislav Palecek, Miluše Roubícková, František Vízner (all 1970s). Company returned to Beránek family 1991  website

Bibierre Vetreria Artigiana
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
General filigree glassware

Biot, Verrerie de
Biot, France (c 1958 - )
Hand-blown, usually pulegoso glass, with acid-etched mark to base. Jean-Claude Novaro, Jean-Paul Van Lith  website

Bimini Werkstätte
Vienna, Austria (1923 - 1938)
Fritz Lampl, Artur & Josef Berger. Ultra-lightweight lamp-worked items, the artistic design of which was highly regarded. Fritz Lampl moved to London to escape the Anschluss (the annexation of Austria by the Nazis), where he founded Orplid

Blades, John
London, England (early 19th Century)
John Blades, Francis Jones. Manufacturers & exporters of hand-blown & heavily-cut Georgian & Regency glassware. Royal Warrants to the British & Persian courts

Blenko
Milton, West Virginia, USA (1922 - )
Stained glass for churches; from 1929 decorative & household glassware & coloured glass building slabs. William John Blenko (English). Louis Miller, Axel Muller, Winslow Anderson (1946-53), Wayne Husted (1952-63), Joel Philip Myers (1963-70), John Nickerson (1970-74), Don Shepherd (1974-87), Hank Adams (1988-94), Trey Gott (1995-96), Matt Carter (1995-2002) (1 design registered in UK on 1/10/89 by William J Blenko) collectors' website

Boda
Sweden (1864 - 1976)
Founded by R Wictor Scheutz & Erik Widlund (formerly with Kosta).Fritz Kallenberg (1925-68), Erik Hoglund (1953-73), Lena Larsson (1960s), Signe Persson-Melin (1967-73), Monica Backström (1965-), Rolf Sinnemark (1971-85). Merged with Åfors & Kosta in 1976, to form Kosta Boda

Bohemia Art Glass (BAG)
Vsetín, Czech Republic (1992 - )
Jirí Šuhájek, Vladimír Jelínek, Vratislav Šotola, Jirí Bohá, Jirí Jetmar, Jaroslav Štursa, Jan Exnar, Jan Votava, Stanislav Zampach, Rony Plesl, František Urban, Oto Macek, Mojmir Cermák, Petr Vlcek, Shafaq Ahmed, Judita Chytkova. Hand-made art glass, nowadays mainly producing for Barovier & Toso  website

Bohemia Glassworks National Corporation (Sklárny Bohemia)
Podebrady, Czech Republic (1965 - )
Originally formed by the merger of five lead crystal factories, including the Podebrady Glassworks. The factories split up again in 1989, but the Podebrady Glassworks kept the name

Bolton Bowater, J F
Stourbridge, England (1920s - 30s)
Inexpensive coloured fancy glass

Bolton & Sons, Edward
Warrington, Lancs, England (19th Century)
The Oxford Lane Glass Works. Formerly Robinson & Bolton (Robinson had left to found Robinson & Skinner). Edward Bolton. Pressed glass. 7 designs registered from 1869 to 1875, then 1 design (4th June 1877) as Bolton, Son & Wood, 1 design (11th December 1885) as Edward Bolton, and 1 last design (11th August 1888) as Edward Bolton & Sons

Bon, Vetreria Artigiana Aldo
Murano, Venice, Italy (1960 - c 1965)
Aldo "Polo" Bon. Collaborated with artists from La Fucina degli Angeli

Borské Sklo
Nový Bor, Czech Republic (1953 - )
Formed by the merger of Borské Sklárny, Borocrystal & Umelecke Sklo. Pavel Hlava (1950s-70s), René Roubícek (1957-67), Josef Rozinek (master glassblower 1950s), Ladislav Oliva (1957-1970s), Karel Wünsch (1959-1960s), František Koudelka (1950s), Vratislav Šotola (1958-62), Miluše Roubicková (1950s-60s)

Boston & Sandwich Glass Co
Sandwich, Mass., USA (1825 - 1888)
Pressed glass, some paperweights & opaline. Deming Jarves (1825-1858). Hiram Dillaway

Boston Silver Glass Co
Cambridge, Mass., USA (1857 - 1871)
Silvered glassware. A Young

Bottacin, Fratelli
Murano, Venice, Italy (late 19th - early 20th C)
Dealers in artistic glass. Collaborated with Fratelli Toso

Bottega, S.A.L.I.R. (Studio Ars Labor Industrie Riunite Bottega) (see S.A.L.I.R.)

Boulton & Mills
Stourbridge, England (1863 - 1926)
The Audnam Glass Works. Hand-blown glass (37 designs registered from 1864 to 1911)

Boyd's Crystal Art Glass, Inc.
Cambridge, Ohio, U.S.A. (1978 - )
Formerly Degenhart Glass. Hand-pressed animals, figures etc.  website

Bridge Crystal
Tipton, England (early 20th Century)
Producers of cut glassware

Brierley Crystal
Stourbridge, England (1920s - c 1933)
Tradename used by Stevens & Williams, before they became Royal Brierley Crystal in c 1933

British American Glass Co
London, England (c 1910 - 1920s)
Importers & wholesalers of pressed flint tableware, including the Cambridge pattern

Brocard, Philippe-Joseph
Paris, France (1867 - 1890)
High-quality enamelled, mostly Islamic-type glassware. Died 1896

Bubacco, Lucio
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Hand-blown glass with lamp-worked figures

Buchenau Bayern Glashüttenwerke (see Poschinger, Ferdinand von)

Buquoy
Gratzen (Nové Hrady), Bohemia (c 1608 - mid 1800s)
Louis Le Vasseur d'Ossimont, Michael Mueller, Anton Lechner, Count Georg Buquoy, Bartholomaeus Rosler. Cut/engraved and/or gilded Lithyalin, Hyalith & Agatine glass

Burgun, Schverer & Cie
Meisenthal, France (1711 - 1903)
Also referred to as Verrerie de Meisenthal. Émile Gallé served 3-year apprenticeship from 1866, as a consequence of which the company later did much work for him, as well as producing their own designs. Art glass production ceased 1903

Burlington Glass Works
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (19th Century)
Pressed glass

Burtles, Tate & Co
Manchester, England (1870 - 1924)
The Poland Street Glass Works. Pressed glass (46 designs registered from 1870 to 1914). Taken over by Butterworth Bros. 1924

Butterworth Bros Ltd
Manchester, England (c 1920s - 30s)
All kinds of glassware from industrial, laboratory & lighting to jars, barrels & tableware. Bought out Burtles, Tate & Co in 1924