glassware manufacturers: Q to R

Quiross
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Modern cut-glass mirrors

Ragazzi, Piero
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Fused-murrhine costume-jewellery & ornaments

Rainbow Art Glass
Huntington, W.Va., USA (1954 - 1972)
Subsidiary of Viking

Red House Glassworks
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England (1776 - 1885)
Founded by George Ensell. After several changes of ownership, it was leased by Frederick Stuart in 1881, and eventually bought out by Stuart & Sons in 1885

Regent Flint Glass Co
Salford, Manchester, England (1877)
Pressed glass (2 designs registered 1877). Formerly John Derbyshire

Reich & Co, S
Krasno, Bohemia (1813 - )
Mass-produced industrial acid-cameo glass c 1900 (signed "R Krasno"), also pressed glass c 1930s

Reijmyre
Östergötland, Sweden (1810 - )
Pressed glass from 1830. Art glass resumed from 1936

Rheinische Glasshütte
Ehrenfeld, Cologne, Germany (c 1886 - 1892)
Winged drinking-glasses (often with figure-of-eight snake stems & cresting), copies of 16th & 17th Century glass

Richard
Lorraine, France (c 1920s)
2- & (sometimes) 3-layer acid-cameo glass vases, bowls, lamps & night-lights

Richardson & Sons, Henry G
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England (c 1870 - 1930)
The Wordsley Flint Glass Works. Successors to W H, B & J Richardson. Henry Gething Richardson, in partnership with his sons Benjamin (III) & Arthur. Taken over by Thos Webb & Sons 1930 & moved to its Dennis Glassworks. Name still occasionally used by them until late 1960s (33 designs registered from 1882 to 1928)

Richardson, Benjamin
Stourbridge, England (1854 - c 1870)
The Wordsley Flint Glass Works. Formerly W H, B & J Richardson (12 designs registered from 1854 to 1858). Became Henry G Richardson & Sons (c 1870)

Richardson, W H, B & J
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England (1836 - 1854)
The Wordsley Flint Glass Works. Formerly Webb & Richardson. William Haden Richardson, Benjamin Richardson (I), Jonathan Richardson. 1842 also acquired the White House Glassworks from Thomas Webb (I). John Northwood, Edwin Grice, Thomas Bott, W J/Joseph Muckley, Philip Pargeter, T Guest. (9 designs registered from 1847 to 1851), Became Benjamin Richardson (1854)

Riedel glassworks
Kufstein, Austria (20th Century)

Riedel, Josef
Polaun (Polubný), Bohemia (1888 - 1938)
From another long line of glass manufacturers & refiners (dating back to the late 1600s). including his father (also Josef), who invented Annagrün (green) & Annagelb (yellow) uranium-tinted glass in c 1830, and various other colours & stains. As well as being a high-quality refiner, Josef (junior) also developed new colours - some 600 that could be produced consistently

Rigot, Edmund (see Villeroy & Boch)

Riihimäen Lasi Oy (Riihimäki Glassworks)
Riihimäki, Finland (1910 - 1976)
Art glass from 1928. Henry Ericsson, Arrtu Brummer (d 1951), Gunnel Nyman, Helena Tynell, Nanny Still, Aimo Okkolin, Tamara Aladin, Ekkitapio Siiroinen. Ceased blown glass 1976, bought by Ahlstrom 1985

Rindskopf, Josef
Kosten bei Teplitz (Košt'any u Teplic), Bohemia (1891 - 1927)
Iridised Art Nouveau glass. Went public 1920 and turned to pressed glass. Went bankrupt in 1927

Rioda, Successori Andrea
Murano, Venice, Italy (1911 - 38)
Originally Andrea Rioda & C. (name changed c 1930). Manufactured for Salviati (including designs by Dino Martens). Andrea Rioda, Eduino Zanetti. Giulio Radi (left 1932 to co-found A.VE.M.)

Robinson & Bolton
Warrington, Lancs, England (c 1855 - c 1868)
The Oxford Lane Glass Works. Pressed glass (5 designs registered from 1856 to 1867). Edward Bolton, Peter Robinson (Robinson left to found Robinson & Skinner c 1868)

Robinson & Skinner
Warrington, Lancs, England (c 1868 - c 1880)
The Mersey Glass Works. Peter Robinson (from Robinson & Bolton). Pressed glass (1 design registered 28th January 1875)

Robinson, Skinner & Co
Warrington, Lancs, England (c 1890 - c 1900)
Formerly Robinson, Son & Skinner. The Mersey Glass Works. Pressed glass (1 design registered 10th May 1892)

Robinson, Smith & Co
Warrington, Lancs, England (c 1900 - c 1920)
Formerly Robinson, Skinner & Co. The Mersey Glass Works. Pressed glass (1 design registered 3rd July 1909)

Robinson, Son & Co
Warrington, Lancs, England (c 1920 - c 1890)
Formerly Robinson, Smith & Co. The Mersey Glass Works. Pressed glass. Taken over by John Walsh Walsh 1933 and moved to Birmingham

Robinson, Son & Skinner
Warrington, Lancs, England (c 1880 - c 1890)
Formerly Robinson & Skinner. The Mersey Glass Works. Pressed glass (1 design registered 10/12/1885)

Rochère, Cristallerie la
Passavant la Rochère, France (1475 - )
Simon de Thysac. Oldest active glass-works in France (and one of the world's oldest). Architectural glassware, tableware, lamps of multi-layered glass using techniques of Art Nouveau master glassmakers  website

Ronneby Glassworks, F.M.
Ronneby, Sweden (1961 - 1990)
Small independent glassworks, founded by Josef and Benito Marcolin, producing mostly ornaments, animal figures etc. Signed pressed paperweights by Mats Jonasson

Rosenthal
Amberg, Germany (1954 - )
Originally decorator (from 1879) & manufacturer (from 1891) of porcelain. Glass from 1954. Introduced "studio-linie" (high-quality tableware) 1961. Tapio Wirkkala, Timo Sarpaneva, Bjorn Wiinblad, Professor Claus Josef Riedel, Michael Boehm (1966-), Wolf Karnagel (1960s)  website

Rosin, Loredano
Murano, Venice, Italy (1975 - )
Loredano Rosin, Dino Rosin (his brother)

Rossi, Paolo, Maestro Vetrario
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Reproduction Roman glass archaeological finds

Rössler, Theodor
Bohemia (c 1918 - 1938)
Cloisonné-style figurative enamellist

Rousseau, F Eugène
Paris, France (c 1870 - c 1910)
Trained in porcelain and ceramics. Used Appert Frères at Clichy to produce cased, cameo, intaglio-engraved, sometimes crackled vases, frequently with bronze or siver mounts. Alphonse-Georges Reyen (1877). His pupil, Ernest-Baptiste Léveillé bought his workshop in 1885 and continued to produce Rousseau's designs until c 1910 (Rousseau died 1891). Vases sometimes signed "E Rousseau" (with or without "Paris")

Royal Brierley Crystal
Stourbridge, England (1931 - 2007)
Formerly Stevens & Williams. Royal warrant awarded by George V. After encountering financial difficulties in the late 1990s, went into receivership in 2000. Subsequently bought by various companies, including (finally) Dartington Crystal in 2006. Closed for good 27th July 2007

Royal Doulton Crystal
Amblecote, Stourbridge, England (1986 - 1995)
Formerly Webb Corbett

Royal Kröne glassworks
Sweden (20th Century)
Mats Jonasson

Royal Scandinavia
Scandinavia (1997- )
A multinational glass & ceramics manufacturing group (of which the Carlsberg brewery is the largest shareholder) formed by the amalgamation of Kastrup-Holmegaard, Boda Nova-Höganäs Keramik, Orrefors Kosta Boda & Venini

Rückl, Anton & Söhne
Prague, Bohemia (1846 - 1945)
Vases, lamps etc. in cut cased, enamelled & gilded, spatter-glass

Rupel, Cristallerie
Boom, Belgium (20th Century)
F Van Ransbeeck (1960s)

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