Pagan
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Label seen on modern murrhine glass
Pagliarin & Franco
Murano, Venice, Italy (late 19th - early 20th C)
Pagnin & Bon
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Vases, paperweights & ornaments in polished & enamelled glass
Palda, Karl
Haida (Nový Bor), Bohemia (1888 - 1938)
Refiner & exporter
Pallme-König & Habel
Kosten bei Teplitz (Košt'any u Teplic), Bohemia (1889 - mid 1950s)
Originally Ignaz Pallme-König Co (founded 1786), then Josef Pallme-König Co (mid 19th Century). Josef/Theodor Pallme-König & Wilhelm Habel. Josef Velik (1910-19) with Alois Ritter. Company nationalised after World War II, absorbed into the Inwald Sklárny National Corporation
Panizzi, Eugenio
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Polished & engraved glassware & gift articles
Pantin, Cristallerie de
Pantin, Paris, France (1851 - c 1915)
Founded by E S Monot (1851-90s) at La Villette, moved to Pantin 1855. F Stumpf (1868). One design registered in Britain (120760, 02-Mar-1889) as "Monot & Stumpf".
After several name changes, finally became Stumpf, Touvier, Viollet & Cie in 1900. Merged with Legras & Cie after WWI (see also St Denis et Pantin)
Pargeter, Philip
Stourbridge, England (1871 - 1874)
The Red House Glass Works. From Hodgetts, Richardson & Pargeter. Hand-blown glass & cased blanks (4 designs registered from 1871 to 1874)
Pauly & C.
Murano, Venice, Italy (1836 - )
Commissioning retailers & manufacturers. c 1902 imported Tiffany, Gallé, Daum. Loetz & other French & Bohemian glass, also producing Art Nouveau glass of their own. Umberto Bellotto, Napoleone Martinuzzi, Guido Balsamo-Stella (all 1920s & 30s). Alfredo Barbini, Mirco Casaril. Merged with Compagnia di Venezia e Murano in 1920
Pavanello Malvino & Figli
Murano, Venice, Italy (c 1980s)
Malvino Pavanello, Renzo Pavanello
Peill & Putzler, Glashüttenwerke
Düren, Germany (20th Century)
Formerly in East Germany. Moulded P mark on base of vases. Known to be operating 1960s
Pellatt & Co, Apsley
Southwark, London, England (c 1790 - c 1875)
Apsley Pellatt (Senior) bought Falcon Glass House (est 1693). His son (also Apsley) introduced 'sulphides' to England (from France). Also made paperweights, decanters, scent-bottles, candlesticks etc. (12 designs registered from 1843 to 1874). Frederick Pellatt (c 1850). Went into partnership with John Henry Wood c 1870 (1 design registered 25/5/1871), company becoming Pellatt & Wood (1 design registered 28/3/1874)
Percival & Yates
Manchester, England (1847 - 1848)
The British & Foreign Flint Glass Works. Pressed glass (6 designs registered 1847)
Percival, Vickers & Co
Manchester, England (1867 - c 1920s)
Pressed glass (82 designs registered from 1867 to 1902). Formerly Percival, Yates & Vickers
Percival, Yates & Vickers
Manchester, England (1865 - 1866)
Pressed glass (3 designs registered 1865). Formerly Percival & Yates
Peynaud
Bordeaux, France (1910 - 1945)
Glass refinery, "faux-cameo" enamelling, often in the Nancy style
Pfohl
Bohemia
Talented family of glass cutters, engravers & enamellers, beginning with Wenzel (late 18th C), his son Josef, Josef's son Alexander (1866-1943), Alexander's sons Alexander (II) (1894-1953) & Erwin (1906-1975). These last both worked for, and designed for, many of the major Bohemian manufacturers, and Alexander taught in Bohemia & Germany. His daughter Brigitte is still working today
Phoenician glass
Sliema, Malta (c 1980s - )
Leonard Mulligan (from Mdina Glass). Hand-blown studio glass, often iridescent
Piarist Glass School
Nový Bor, Bohemia (1763 - )
The first of the Glass Schools in Bohemia, founded by Count Kinsky for the benefit of the glass industry. Named for the members of the Piarist Order who staffed it
Pilgrim Glass Co
USA (1949 - )
Alfred E Knobler, Alessandro/ Roberto Moretti (1950s-), Mario Sandon (1963-)
Pilkington Glass
St Helens, Lancashire, England (1849 - )
Originally St Helens Crown Glass Co, founded by John William Bell (1826), then Greenall & Pilkington (1829). Flat & industrial glassware. Bought out Chance Brothers in 1945
Pohl, Karl
Haida (Nový Bor), Bohemia (early 1900s)
With a family tradition of glass refining throughout the 19th century, Karl Pohl was a superbly talented painter & engraver in the Art Nouveau style
Portland Glass
Portland, Maine, USA (1864 - 1873)
Hand-blown & pressed glassware
Poschinger, Glasfabrik Benedikt von
Oberzwieselau, Germany (1808 - 1925)
Kristallglasfabrik Oberzwieselau. Georg Carl von Reichenbach
Poschinger, Ferdinand von
Buchenau, Germany (1629 - 1931)
Buchenau Bayern Glashüttenwerke. Ferdinand von Poschinger (c 1870s - 1900s)
Poschinger, Kristallglasfabrik Freiherr von
Frauenau, Germany (1568 - )
website (English version still under construction)
Powell & Sons, James
Wealdstone, Middx, England (1834 - 1961)
Formerly the Whitefriars Glass Works (est. c 1680). Acquired by James Powell 1834; name changed 1860. Moved from Blackfriars to Wealdstone 1923. Frederick Engelbert Kny (mid 19th C), Harry J/James Crofts Powell, William Butler, Joseph Francis (1900-1920s). E Barnaby Powell (1891-1939), Keith Murray (1932), Marriott Powell, Tom Hill, James H Hogan (1930s/40s), William J Wilson. Post-war: Geoffrey Baxter. See also Whitefriars
Prague School of Industrial Arts
Prague, Bohemia (1885 - )
Later known as the Academy of Applied Arts. Began to attract glass artists in 1900s when Josef Drahonovsky became director of the engraving studio
Pukeberg
Nybro, Sweden (1871 - )
Art glass from 1930s. Goran/Ann Wärff (1959), Eva Englund (1964-). Bought by Gashbron 1984
website

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