Sabino Crystal Company
Paris, France (1919 to prtesent)
Originally Verrerie d'Art Sabino. Marius Ernest Sabino. Clear, coloured, frosted, stained, enamelled & (best-known) opalescent glass. Entire operation (including moulds) eventually sold to Sabino Crystal Co (Houston, Texas, USA) in 1978, manufacturing continuing in France
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Sachsenglas, VEB (Saxony Glass)
Ottendorf, (formerly East) Germany (1946 - 1990s)
Formerly August Walther & Söhne. Pressed functional & decorative glassware
(various catalogues, from 1954 to 1965, can be seen at www.glas-musterbuch.de)
Saint Denis (see St Denis)
Saint Louis (see St Louis)
S.A.I.A.R. Ferro Toso (see Ferro Toso, S.A.I.A.R.)
S.A.L.I.R. (Studio Ars et Labor Industrie Riunite)
Murano, Venice, Italy (1923 to present)
Engraving, enamelling & sand-blasting. Blanks initially from S.A.I.A.R. Ferro Toso (1923-36). Decio Toso, Giuseppe d'Alpaos, Guglielmo Barbini, Gino Francesconi. Dino Martens (1925). Guido Balsamo Stella (1927-30), Franz Pelzel (1927-68), Vittorio Zecchin (1935), Romeo Ongaro, Gino Francesconi, Giorgio Zecchin (1938-43), Piero Fornasetti (1940), Tono Zancanaro (1954), Agostino Venturini. Designers include: Vittorio Zecchin, Gio Ponti, Riccardo Liccata, Serena Dal Maschio, Vinicio Vianello (1950s), Carlo Scarpa, Flavio Poli, Pietro Pelzel (1930s-1954), Romualdo Scarpa (1962), Renato Guttuso (1986)
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Salvadori, Giuseppe
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Gilded & enamelled glassware
Salviati & C.
Murano, Venice, Italy (1859 to present)
Traded under many different names (all including 'Salviati'), until current name adopted (1920). Dr Antonio Salviati, Giuseppe Barovier, Lorenzo Radi, Andrea Boldini (all 19th C), Luciano Gaspari (1920s), Corrado "Dino" Martens & Mario Da Luigi (1930s), Luciano Gaspari (1950s/60s), Romano Chirivi, Renzo Camerino & Sergio Asti (1960s), Renzo Tedeschi, Livio Seguso. Claire Falkenstein (1970s/80s), Heinz Oestergaard (mid 1980s), Berit Johansson (1990). Company sold in 1987, but still in production. French-owned since 1995
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Salviati, Jesurum & C.
London, England (1897 - 1907)
A co-operative venture to represent the Murano companies of Salviati & C., Jesurum & C., Venice Art Co, and Pagliarin & Franco
Salzburger Kristallglas
Alpensiedlung, Salzburg, Austria (20th Century)
Known to be no longer in business
Santi, Cristalleria
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Glass tableware & ornaments
Santini, Emilio
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Lamp-worked blown glassware
Sasaki Glass (see Toyo Sasaki Glass)
Saunders & Shepherd
London, England (c 1885 - 1908)
36 designs registered, 1885-1908, for scent-bottle bodies & stoppers, & glass novelties of various sorts. Listed as 'Saunders & Shepherd, London. Manufacturing Goldsmiths & Jewellers'
S.A.V.A.M. (Società Anonima Vetri Artistici Murano)
Murano, Venice, Italy (1925 - 1937)
Became V.A.M.S.A. in 1937
Saxony Glass (see Sachsenglas, VEB)
Scailmont, Verrerie de
Manage, Belgium (active 1920s - 30s)
Enamelled and gilded hand-blown & frosted mould-blown Art Deco ware
Scalabrin & Daltin
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Classic-style gilded & enamelled glassware
Schander Co, Crystal
Oberhöchstadt, Germany (1947 - 1987)
Kamill (Camillo) Schander & his brother Franz Schander. Deported from Jablonec after World War II. Cut decanters, vases, scent-bottles, ashtrays, table lighters, & commemorative glassware. Trade name 'CRYSCO'
Schappel, Karl
Haida (Nový Bor), Bohemia (early 20th Century )
Refiner, producing cut overlaid glassware in the Art Deco style
Schindler & Co
London, England (1890 - 1913)
Possibly the London office of a Bohemian manufacturer. Registered 61 designs between 1890 & 1913. Company listed as 'manufacturers' on all but one occasion, when they were listed as 'importers'
Schlevogt, Kurt
Gablonz (Jablonec), Bohemia (1920s - 1945)
Curt Schlevogt, Henry Günther Schlevogt (his son). High-quality pressed Lapis (blue) & Jade (green) malachite-type glass, especially the 'Ingrid' series, launched in 1934. Company nationalised in 1945
Schneckendorf, Josef Emil
Munich, Germany (b 1865, d 1949)
Artist & sculptor, who also designed glassware & jewellery, from around 1898 into the early 1900s
Schneider, Cristallerie
Epinay-sur-Seine, France (1908 - 1981)
Charles Schneider (studied under Gallé & Daum) & his brother Ernest. Originally commercial glass, changing to decorative glassware in 1920s. Pieces signed "Schneider", "Le Verre Français" or (rare) "Charder". Coloured glass discontinued early 1930s. Robert Schneider (Charles' son) (1948-). Factory moved to Lorris (Loiret) 1962
Schönborn, VEB Glaswerk
Schönborn, (formerly East) Germany (post-War)
Originally (1899) Johannahütte. Initially industrial glassware, now (Post-War) cut lead crystal functional glassware
(the 1954 catalogue can be seen at www.glas-musterbuch.de)
Schott & Genossen
Jena, Germany (c 1885 to present)
Optical, laboratory & domestic glass. 1918 began production of heat-resistant 'Jenaer Glas' (Jena Glass) Otto Schott. Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Heinz Loffelhardt (1940s/50s). Now trades as 'Schott Zwiesel', a part of 'Zwiesel Kristallglas' since 2001
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SEA Glasbruk
Småland, Sweden (1956 to present)
Björn Ramél, Rune Strand, Renate Stock Paulsson, Olle Brozén, Jon Eliason, Lena Engman, Liselotte Henriksen, Eva-Lena Martinsson. Decorative glassware. Part of Orrefors Kosta Boda, owned by New Wave Group
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Seago, Johnson & Co
Birmingham (1870s)
Thomas Seago, Benjamin John Johnson, glass cutters and engravers. First at 49 Friston Street, later at 23 George Street Parade. Registered 6 designs in1874 and 1875, with a further 4 designs as Seago & Co in 1876 and 1877
Seguso Arte Vetro
Murano, Venice, Italy (1969 - ?)
Livio Seguso (trained under Alfredo Barbini 1944-59, then Maestro at Salviati 1960s)
Seguso Dalla Venezia
Murano, Venice, Italy (c 1950s - ?)
Ezio Rizzetto, Agostino Venturini
Seguso, Gianni
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Gianni Seguso
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Seguso, Vetreria Archimede
Murano, Venice, Italy (1946 to present)
Archimede Seguso, Riccardo Liccata (1952), Gino Seguso (1959-), Giampaolo Seguso (1964-92), Angelo Seguso (1988-), Antonio Seguso (c 1985-)
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Seguso Vetri d'Arte
Murano, Venice, Italy (1933 - 1992)
Originally Barovier, Seguso & Ferro. Name changed 1937. Napoleone Barovier, Antonio & his sons Ernesto/Alberto/Archimede Seguso, Luigi Olimpio Ferro (1933-37), Vittorio Zecchin (1933-34), Flavio Poli (1934-63), Alfredo Barbini (c 1936), Mario Pinzoni (1954-71), Angelo Seguso (1950s-85), Bruno Seguso, Vittorio Rigattieri (1968-73), Pino Signoretto (1973-76). Traded as S.A.M. (Sculpture Artistiche Muranesi) 1973-76. Taken over by Gino Cenedese 1993, and production discontinued. Re-established in 1996 as a separate company, but with the glassware (now mainly lighting) actually manufactured by Formia S.r.l.
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Seguso Viro S.r.l.
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
The Seguso family have been making glass since 1397, when Angelo Seguso first started. He passed on his knowledge to his son, Francesco, and the tradition has continued to the present day. This company consists of Giampaolo & his sons Gianluca, Pierpaolo & Gian Andrea
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Seguso, Zanetti & C.
Murano, Venice, Italy (late 19th - early 20th C)
Vittorio Zanetti, Liberale & Giovanni "Nane Patare" Seguso
Selinger & Emanuel
London, England (late 19th Century)
1 design registered 1884. Listed as 'Selinger & Emanuel, London. Merchants'. 'Emanuel' is probably Max Emanuel (see separate listing)
Sent, Guglielmo
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Enamelled glass
Serenella Industria Vetraria
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Table lamps & general lighting
Serenissima, La
Murano, Venice, Italy (1984 to present)
Hand-made chandeliers, table, ceiling & floor lamps, other decorative lighting in traditional Venetian style
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Sèvres, Cristallerie de
Sèvres, France (1870 - 1885)
Originally Verrerie de Sèvres (founded mid-18th Century). Purchased by Landier & renamed
Sèvres et Clichy Réunis, Cristalleries de
Sèvres, France (1885 to present)
Amalgamation of Cristallerie de Sèvres & Verrerie de Maës et Clemandot à Clichy. Landier, Houdaille. Henri Cros & Albert Louis Dammouse (1890s) pâte-de-verre
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Shepherd & Webb
Stourbridge, England (1883 - 1840)
The White House Glass Works. John Shepherd, John Webb (father of Thomas). Thomas Webb (from the death of his father in 1835) bought out John Shepherd 1836, but continued to use his name
Sherwood, George
St Helens, England (c 1850)
The Eccleston Flint Glass Works. Pressed drinking-glasses (4 designs registered in 1850)
Signoretto, Pino
Murano, Venice, Italy (1978 to present)
Pino Signoretto (b. 1944) (from Seguso Vetri d'Arte). Sculptural glassware, both serious & humorous
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S.I.V. (Società Italiana Vetro)
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Sklárny Bohemia (see Bohemia Glassworks National Corporation)
Sklárna Novosad & Syn Harrachov (see Harrach)
Škrdlovice Glassworks (Škrdlovicka Sklárská Hut) (see Beránek)