glassware manufacturers: N to P

Nailsea Glasshouse, The
near Bristol, England (1788 - 1870)
Founded as The Nailsea Crown Glass & Bottle Manufacturers by William Chance, John Robert Lucas & Edward Homer. Robert Lucas Chance left to acquire The British Crown Glass Co (at the Spon Lane Glassworks) in Birmingham in 1824 (later forming Chance Brothers, which eventually bought out the Nailsea Glasshouse in 1870)

Nancy, Cristalleries de
Nancy, France (1922 - 1934)
Situated directly opposite Daum factory, from whom it poached several workers. Acid-cameo and/or wheel-cut cased Art Deco vases, cologne-bottles etc., often in limited editions of 100. Michel Colle

Nason, Giampaolo
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Giampaolo Nason. Murano glass fashion jewelry and accessories, Venetian mirrors, picture frames, beads & tassels website

Nason & C., Società Operaja Arturo
Murano, Venice, Italy (late 19th - early 20th C)
Ovidio Nason, Vittorio Zuffi

Nason & C., Vincenzo
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Art glassware, lighting & bathroom accessories

Nason & Moretti, Cristalleria
Murano, Venice, Italy (c 1923 - )
Ugo & sons Antonio/Giuseppe/Vincenzo/Umberto Nason. Ulderico/Pietro/Vincenzo/Germano Moretti. Umberto Nason (1949-64), Ugo Nason (1964-), Paolo Nason (1970), Marco Nason (1980-), Giorgio Nason (1982-), Piero Nason (1992-) website

National Glass Co
London, England (c 1900 - c 1939)
Charles J Pratt, importer of American pressed glass (Chippendale KrysTol, Balmoral, Georgian & Victorian patterns). 1930 established manufacturing plant in York at former York Glass Co. Also other pressed tableware, machine-made cut & etched tumblers & container glass (9 designs registered from 1925 to 1938)

Navarre, Henri
Paris, France (c 1925 - 1935)
Studio glass, influenced by the work of Maurice Marinot

Nazeing Glass Works
Broxbourne, Herts, England (1928 - )
Manufacturers of mainly industrial glassware (still in business as such - see current British glassworkers: N to R). Last 'descendant' of the great Vauxhall (London) factories, (Duke of Buckingham’s, George Ravenscroft’s, Dawson Bowles, Albert Glass Works), started in 1612 by the Second Duke of Buckingham. George Ravenscroft owned the factory before John Bowles took over. Reginald G Kempton & his father Richard Kempton , who had founded the Southwark Glass Works in 1920, moved the company to Broxbourne in 1928, where it became The Nazeing Glass Works. Richard Kempton left in 1932. Malcolm Pollock-Hill produced a range of art glass, mainly pre-War, with some up to mid-1950s. Post-War designers include Ronnie Stennart-Willson, Roger Phillippo, David Hockney. Wide range of domestic tableware, blown, pressed, cut and plain lead crystal, Bristol blue ware, industrial lighting and signal lenses in over 40 colours. Home to the Nazeing Glass Museum of 20th Century British Domestic Glass website

New England Glass Co
East Cambridge, Mass., USA (1818 - 1888)
Deming Jarves (1818-1825), Henry Whitney, Joseph Locke, William L Libbey, Edward Drummond Libbey, Louis F Vaupel

Norsk Glasvaerk
Magnor, Norway (1950 - )
Decorative glassware & tableware

Northwood Glass Co
Martins Ferry, Ohio, USA (c 1880s - 1923)
Pressed glass, especially carnival glass

Novosad & Syn Harrachov, Sklárna (see Harrach)

Nový Bor Glass School
Nový Bor, Bohemia (1870 - )
Louis Arthur Fritzche, director. Specialised in producing enamellists. Formerly the Staatsfachschule Haida

Nuutajärvi (a.k.a. Nuutajärvi-Notsjö)
Nuutajärvi, Finland (1793 - 1988)
Mainly tableware with some art glass. Gunnel Nyman (1946-8), Paul Kedelv, Kaj Franck (1950-76), Oiva Toikka (1963-), Heikki Orvola. From 1971 marketed under trade name "Arabia". Merged with Karhula-Iittala 1988 website

Nybro Crystal
Nybro, Sweden (current )
Moulded crystal

Oelzner, Ulrike & Thomas
Leipzig, Germany (known to be active 1970s)
Studio glass

Oertel, Johann
Haida (Nový Bor), Bohemia (1869 - 1938)
Refiner of high-quality blanks, mainly cut cased glass

Ohio Flint Glass Co (a.k.a. Ohio Cut Glass Co)
Bowling, Ohio, USA (1872 - 1912)
Owned by the Chicago glass refiners Pitkins & Brooks. Cut & pressed glass. Patented 'Krys-Tol' glassware (5th February 1907)

Ongaro Fuga
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Artistic Venetian mirrors & engraved glassware

Orplid
London, England (1940 - 1955)
Fritz Lampl from Bimini Werkstätte. Hand-blown buttons, scent-bottles, decanters & drinking-glasses, vases

Orrefors
Målerås, Sweden (1898 - )
Originally an Ironworks founded 1726, converted to a glassworks 1898. Purchased by John Ekman 1913, who, with his manager Albert Ahlin, introduced art glass. Knut Bergqvist, Simon Gate (1916), Edward Hald (1917-late 70s), Edvard Strömberg (1918-28), Nils Landberg (1927-72), John Selbing (1927-73), Gustaf Abels, Gustav Augustsson, Viktor Jakobsson, Gustav Bergqvist (1920s/30s), Victor Emanuel "Vicke" Lindstrand (1928-41), Karl Edvin Öhrström (1936-58), Sven Palmqvist (1930-72), Paul Kedelv. Post-war: Ingeborg Lundin (1947), Gunnar Cyrén (1956-70), Carl Fagerlund, Eva Englund, Olle Alberius, Jan Johansson, Anne Nilsson, Lars Hellsten, Erika Lagerbielke, Martti Rytkönen. Merged 1990 with Kosta Boda, to form Orrefors Kosta Boda, which subsequently amalgamated with Kastrup-Holmegaard, Boda Nova-Höganäs Keramik & Venini to form Royal Scandinavia in 1997 website

Osler, F & C
Birmingham, England (1807 - c 1900)
Also retail outlets in Broad St, Birmingham & Oxford St, London. Hand-blown tableware & ornamental glass, often cut (21 designs registered from 1847 to 1900)

Ourthe, Cristalleries et Verreries de l'
Chênée, Liège, Belgium (1822 - ? )
Alexandre Amiable

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). in 1889 William Habel, assisted by Josef & Theodor Pallme-König founded the Elizabethhütte (named after his mother, Elizabeth), producing much of the raw material for Pallme-König. It officially merged with Pallme-König in 1907, forming the 'Glasfabrik Elizabeth, Pallme-König & Habel'. In 1920, became the 'Vereinigte Glasshüttenwerke Pallme-König & 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 at La Villette. Moved to Pantin 1855. Formed 'Monot & Stumpf' with F Stumpf (1876) . One design registered in Britain (120760, 02-Mar-1889). When Monot retired (c 1888), Stumpf took new partners to form 'Stumpf, Touvier, Viollet & Cie.'. Camille Tutré de Varreux (1900) acid- & wheel-engraved glassware, signed 'de Vez'. Company 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 (see under Venezia e Murano, Compagnia di)

Pavanello Malvino & Figli
Murano, Venice, Italy (c 1980s)
Malvino Pavanello, Renzo Pavanello

Peill & Putzler, Glashüttenwerke
Düren, Germany (1903 - 1997)
Originally Peill & Sohn, founded by Leopold Peill. Designers included Wolfgang von Wersin (art director), Georg Metzendorf, Fritz Rehm, Emanuel Seidel. Merged with Gebrüder Putzler (manufacturers of light-fittings) in 1946. Later designers include Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Aloys Ferdinand Gangkofner, Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg (all 1950s), Horst Tüselmann (1960s). Acid-etched back-to-back 'P' mark from 1970. Ceased manufacturing in 1997, but trade name still in use

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

Pitkins & Brooks
Chicago, Illinois, USA (1872 - 1923)
Edward Hand Pitkins, William Brooks Jr. Glass refiners

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, Krystallglasfabrik Freiherr von
Frauenau, Germany (1568 - )
Glashüttengut Zadlershütte (Zwieselau), purchased 1568 by the von Poschinger family. Over the centuries, the business expanded to include other local glassworks. Benedikt von Poschinger senior (1785-1856) married into the Glashüttengut Oberzwieselau in 1808, together with the Hilfenhütte (mirror glass - founded 1629 as Hütte am Hirschberg), & later acquired the Glashütte Oberzwieselau Theresienthal. On his death in 1856 the property was split between his son Ferdinand von Poschinger (1815-1867) who received the flat-glass & mirror-glass works (which he combined into the Buchenau Bayern Glashüttenwerke), with his other son Benedikt von Poschinger junior inheriting the rest. Past designers include Jean Beck, Peter Behrens, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Hans Christiansen, Georg Karl von Reichenbach, Richard Riemerschmid & Karl Schmoll (metalwork)
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

Pueblo Español Glassworks
Barcelona, Spain (1928 - 1936 )
Founded by Bernardo Gordiola Manera (1889-1960) for the Barcelona Internation Exhibition of 1929, the glassworks remained in operation until the Spanish Civil War began, producing both reproductions of antique Spanish glassware & highly-enamelled wares

Pukeberg
Nybro, Sweden (1871 - )
Art glass from 1930s. Goran/Ann Wärff (1959), Eva Englund (1964-). Bought by Gashbron 1984 website

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