glassware manufacturers: E to G

Etling
Paris, France (c 1920s - 30s)
Commisioning retailer. Genevieve Granger, Lucille Sevin, Jean-Theodore Delabasse, Geza Hiez, Georges Béal

Falcon Glass House (see Pellatt & Co, Apsley)

Fenice, La, Vetreria Artistica
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Gianfranco Albertini. Filigree art glassware, bathroom accessories

Fenton Art Glass Co
Williamstown, W Va, USA (1905 - )
Frank Leslie Fenton. Popular imitations of Tiffany and other art glass, carnival & other pressed glass

Ferro & C., Fratelli
Murano, Venice, Italy (late 19th C - 1911)

Ferro & Cimegotto
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Paperweights, gilded & enamelled panels

Ferro & Lazzarini
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Ezio Rizzetto, Fulvio Bianconi. Sculptures, ornate paperweights & other glassware

Ferro, Galliano
Murano, Venice, Italy (c 1954 - )
Giorgio Ferro (1955-). Classic Murano chandeliers, from Renaissance to Art Nouveau  website

Ferro Opalini, Fratelli
Murano, Venice, Italy (post-War)
French-style opaline items

Ferro Toso, S.A.I.A.R. (Società Anonima Italiana Arti Riunite Ferro Toso)
Murano, Venice, Italy (late 19th C - 1936)
Originally Ferro Toso & C., then S.A.I.A.R. Vitrum Ferro Toso. Artemio & Decio Toso. Anna Akerdahl (1920), Guido & Ann Balsamo Stella (1928-30), Alfredo Barbini (as a teenager). Merged with Vetreria Artistica Barovier after it had gone into liquidation (1936)

Ferro Toso Barovier
Murano, Venice, Italy (1936 - 39)
Vetreria Artistica Barovier (1920-36) merged with S.A.I.A.R. Ferro Toso in 1936, before finally becoming Barovier Toso & C in 1939

Feure, Georges de
Paris, France (c 1910)
Painter & decorative artist. Only 3 known glass designs, all signed "G de Feure"

Filigrana, La
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Paolo Crepax

Fleming & Co, Joseph
Stourbridge, England (c 1920 - 1934)
Joseph Fleming. Cut, engraved & etched tableware. Became Amblecote Glass Co (1934)

Flygsfors
Småland, Sweden (1888 - 1979)
Ernst Wiktor Lundqvist, August Zeitz. Willem G de Moor (1939), Paul Kedelv (1949-56), Wiktor Berndt (1955-74), Marie Bergqvist (1956). Taken over by Orrefors 1974, closed 1979

Fontana, Vetri d'Arte
Milan, Italy (1881 - )
Mainly lighting, with some sculptural and other glass. Luigi Fontana, Gio Ponti, Pietra Chesa, Giacomo Manzu, Erwin Walter Burger (1931-45), Emanuele Ranci Ortigosa (1945). Production of enamelled items signed "Vedar" (1925 -33), introduced by Dr Carlo Vezzoli

Ford & Co, John
Edinburgh, Scotland (1835 - 1904)
The Holyrood Flint Glass Works. John Ford. Pressed glass (6 designs registered from 1876 to 1900), sulphide paperweights

Formia
Murano, Venice, Italy (c 1960s - )
Since 1996, operates from former furnaces of Seguso Vetri d'Arte. General art glass & both classic & modern chandeliers

Fostoria
Moundsville, W Va, USA (1887 - 1986)
Largest hand-blown glass factory in US (originally in Fostoria, Ohio), principally stemmed drinking-glasses. Tiffany-style iridescent glass produced c 1912-1917

Foundry, The
England (?) (known to exist 1986)
Hand-blown glass

Franchetti, Raimondo (Vetreria Veneziana Barone Raimondo Franchetti)
Murano, Venice, Italy (1826 - ? )
a.k.a. Cristalleria Franchetti. Mainly industrial glass, some cut & engraved crystal services. Supplied Italian Royal Navy with services, lamps, globes & lenses (1892-). Alfredo Barbini trained here (c 1930)

Fucina degli Angeli, La
Murano, Venice, Italy (1953 - )
Originally called Centro Studio Pittori Arte del Vetro. Founded by Egidio Costantini to coordinate the work of artists and glassmakers, it is a design studio only, the work being carried out by various blowers at several Murano companies. Aldo "Polo" Bon (1954-74), Gino Krayer (1955), Loredano Rosin (1965-74), Mario Dei Rossi (1975-). Artist/designers included Pablo Picasso (1954), Jean Cocteau (1963), Marc Chagall, Férnand Leger, Jean Arp (1964), Max Ernst (1966), Seibizzi, Bergamini

Fuga, Anzolo (Anzolo Fuga Vetri Decorati e Vetrate Istoriate)
Murano, Venice, Italy (1954 - )
Stained glass workshop. Anzolo Fuga (part-time while working for A.VE.M. until late 1960s, then full-time)

Gallé, Cristallerie d'Émile
Nancy, France (1894 - 1936)
Émile Gallé founded a glass design & decorating workshop in Meisenthal in 1873, having earlier (1866-69) served an apprenticeship there, at Burgun, Schverer & Cie, who continued to manufacture glass for him until he founded his own glassworks in Nancy in 1894. Louis Hestaux, Paul Holderbach, August Herbst, Victor Prouvé (1904-1913)

Galway Crystal
Galway, Eire (1967 - 1974)
Cut lead crystal. Taken over by Wedgwood Glass 1974  website

Gambaro E Poggi
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Glass sculptures & general ornaments  website

Gammon, Thomas
Birmingham, England (1849 - 1852)
The Belmont Glass Works. Very early manufacturer of pressed domestic glassware (5 designs registered, 1849 to 1852)

Ghisetti, Giampaolo
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Gilded & enamelled glassware & reproductions

Glasshouse, The
London, England (1969 - 1970s)
Established 1969 by Samuel J "Sam" Herman (USA - left to go to Australia 1974). Other founder-members (now independent glassworkers) include Peter Layton, Pauline Solven, Steven Newell, Jane Gilchrist, Dillon Clarke, David Taylor, Iestyn Davies. Charlie Meaker & Anthony Stern both also trained here. Annette Meech, Fleur Tookey, Christopher Williams.

Goebel, W
Germany (c 1970s - )
Porcelain manufacturers. Also produced pressed crystal Walt Disney figurines & other pressed paperweights. Member of Rodental group  website

Goldberg, Carl
Haida (Nový Bor), Bohemia (1891 - 1938)
Glass refiner & exporter. Company nationalised after World War II

Goode & Co Ltd, Thomas
London (1827 - )
Retailers of the very best quality ceramics and glassware, they have acted as agents for various monarchies and principalities, receiving their first Royal Warrant from HRH Edward, Prince of Wales in 1863

Gordiola
Algaida, Majorca, Spain (1719 - )
Family glassworks, producing both functional and decorative hand-blown glassware

Gozo glass
Gozo, Malta (c 1980s - )
Hand-blown studio glass

Goupy, Marcel
Paris, France (1918 - 1936)
Designer & enamellist, working for the retailer Georges Rouard. Assisted by Auguste Heiligenstein. Goupy eventually became Artistic Director for Georges Rouard from 1929 until his death in 1954

Gral Glashütte
Dürnau, Göppingen, Germany (1930 - 1992)
Art glass from 1946. Dr R Garnich, Konrad Habermeier, Josef Stadler, Günther Hofmann, Karl Wiedemann, Kay Krasnitsky, Josef Schott, Hermann Schwahn, Hans Sukopp

Grandis, Nicoletta De
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Gilded & enamelled glassware

Gray-Stan
Battersea, London, England (1926 - 1936)
Elizabeth Graydon-Stannus, A Noel Billinghurst, James Manning & George Hollins (glassblowers)

Greener & Co
Sunderland, England (1885 - 1921)
Pressed glass (48 designs registered from 1885 to 1913). Formerly Henry Greener (bought by James A Jobling)

Greener, Henry
Sunderland, England (1869 - 1885)
The Wear Flint Glass Works. Pressed glass (29 designs registered from 1869 to 1884). Formerly Angus & Greener

Guernsey Glass
Channel Islands, UK (late 1970s - c 1995)
Hand-blown studio glass

Guggenheim, Max & Jacques
London, England (c 1895 - 1939)
Glass importers (12 designs registered from 1897 to 1938)

Gullaskruf
Småland, Sweden (1893 - 1995)
Glassworks closed 1921, re-opened 1927 by William Stenberg. Hugo Gehlin (1930-53), Arthur Percy (1951-65), Kjell Blomberg (1955-77). Became part of Krona-Bruken in 1974, leased (later sold) in 1977 to Orrefors, who closed the factory in 1983. Production restarted 1990, finally closed down 1995

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