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Sabino
Paris, France (1919 - )
Marius Ernest Sabino. Clear, coloured, frosted, stained, enamelled & (best-known) opalescent glass. Entire operation (including moulds) eventually sold to US firm 1978, manufacturing continuing in France
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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 - )
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)
Salvadori, Giuseppe
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Gilded & enamelled glassware
Salviati & C.
Murano, Venice, Italy (1859 - )
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 cooperative venture to represent the Murano companies of Salviati & C., Jesurum & C., Venice Art Co, and Pagliarin & Franco
Salzburger Cristallglas
Salzburg, Austria (20th Century)
Santi, Cristalleria
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Glass tableware & ornaments
Santini, Emilio
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Lamp-worked blown glassware
S.A.V.A.M. (Società Anonima Vetri Artistici Murano)
Murano, Venice, Italy (1925 - 37)
Became V.A.M.S.A. in 1937
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
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, H G Curt
Bohemia (1934 - )
Creator of high-quality pressed Lapis (blue) & Jade (green) malachite-type glass
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
Schott & Genossen
Jena, Germany (c 1900 - ? )
Optical, laboratory & domestic glass. Otto Schott. Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Heinz Loffelhardt (1940s/50s)
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Sea
Sweden (1956 - )
Björn Ramél, Rune Strand, Renate Stock. Decorative glassware
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 - )
Archimede Seguso, Riccardo Liccata (1952), Gino Seguso (1959-), Giampaolo Seguso (1964-92), Angelo Seguso (1988-), Antonio Seguso (c 1985-)
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. website
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
Sent, Guglielmo
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Enamelled glass
Serenella Industria Vetraria
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Table lamps & general lighting
Serenissima, La
Murano, Venice, Italy (c 1960s - ? )
Label seen on pairs of male & female dancing figures
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 - )
Amalgamation of Cristallerie de Sèvres & Verrerie de Maës et Clemandot à Clichy. Landier, Houdaille. Henri Cros & Albert Louis Dammouse (1890s) pâte-de-verre
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 - )
Pino Signoretto (from Seguso Vetri d'Arte)
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)
Skruf
Sweden (1897 - 1977)
Bankrupt 1908. Art glass from 1909. Bengt Edenfalk (1953-78). Bought by Kosta Boda 1977
Slack & Co
Orange, NJ, USA (1860 - 1898)
Stephen Slack (b. England 1837, d. Orange 1908).Joseph Waterhouse (1860-1865), Charles Booth (1870-1875), Isaac Baldwin (1880s). Stained Glass manufacture & design. Merit award for works exhibited at US Centennial International Exhibition in Philadelphia (1876). Many installations still extant throughout the US
Southwark Glass Works
London, England (1920 - 1928)
Formerly the Abbot Bottle Works. Reginald G Kempton with his father Richard (both from Albert Glass Works) & A H Williams. Moved to Broxbourne, Herts in 1928 & became Nazeing Glass Works Ltd
Sowerby & Co
Gateshead-on-Tyne, England (1872 - 1883)
The Ellison Glass Works. Pressed glass (96 designs registered from 1872 to 1883)
Sowerby's Ellison Glass Works Ltd
Gateshead-on-Tyne, England (1883 - 1956)
Formerly Sowerby & Co. Pressed glass (83 designs registered from 1884 to 1936). Taken over by Suntex Safety Glass 1956
St Denis et Pantin (Verrerie et Cristallerie de St Denis et Pantin Réunies)
St Denis, Paris, France (1919 - c 1939)
Legras & Cie merged with Cristallerie de Pantin (then trading as Stumpf, Touvier, Viollet & Cie). H P Berlage (1900), Camille Tutré De Varreux (1910). Marks include "Legras", "Pantin", & "De Vez"
St Louis (Compagnie des Cristalleries de St Louis)
St Louis-les-Bitche, Münzthal (now D'Argental), France (1767 - )
Founded on the site of a glassworks that had existed since 1586, and originally given the name Verrerie Royale de St Louis by decree of Louis XV. Aimé-Gabriel d'Artigues (1791-1795), Maurice Dufrène, Marcel Goupy (1920s). Jean Sala (1938-c1950). Some wares signed "St-Louis-Münzthal", "d'Argental", and possibly "Arsale", or "Arsall" (though this may have been produced by by a different, German firm). Post-war: Nicolas Haesen (cutter) (1950s), André Bourlard (1955-81) (both formerly of Val St-Lambert)
Steinschönau, Staatsfachschule
Steinschönau (Kamenický Senov), Bohemia (1856 - )
State Trade School for glassmaking, noted for training engravers. Founded by Johann (Jan) Dvoracek, Karl Pietsch (1880), Leo Chilla (1885), Karl Lorenz (c 1909), Adolfa Beckerta (c 1911-19), Prof. Görlicha (c 1931), Hermann Zeh (c 1931)
Steuben
Corning, N.Y., USA (1903 - )
Set up by Frederick Carder, who managed (1903-32), then was "kicked upstairs" as Art Director (1932-63), a position he held until he died. Thomas G Hawkes, Mr & Mrs Willard Reed. Bought by Corning (1918). John Monteith Gates (1933-70), Sidney B Waugh (1935), George Thompson, Lloyd Atkins (1948-?), Donald Pollard (1950-), James Houston (1962-), Paul Schulze (1970-), Don Weir. Thomas S Buechner (1973)
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Stevens & Williams
Brierley Hill, Stourbridge, England (1847 - c 1933)
Formerly (18th Century) the Moor Lane Glass House at Briar Lea Hill. Leased early 19th Century by Joseph Silvers, whose daughters married William Stevens & Samuel Cox Williams, at which time the name was changed. Frederick Carder (1880-1903), John Northwood (1882), John Northwood II, William Northwood, Joshua Hodgetts, Frank Schreiber, Benjamin Fenn, James Hill, W O Bowen, Percival Cartwright. 20th Century: Keith Murray (1932-39), J W Wadsworth (mid 1930s), Clyne Farquharson. (38 designs registered from 1884 to 1928)
Stölzle Glasindustrie
Köflach, Austria (1843 - )
Carl Stölzle. Industrial, household & decorative glassware. Second factory at Nagelberg
Stourbridge Glass Co
Audnam, Stourbridge, England (1922 - 1972)
J Harry Cuneen, Jack Lloyd. (4 designs registered from 1923 to 1931). Became Tudor Crystal 1972
Strathearn
Crieff, Scotland (1965 - 1980)
Vasart taken over by Teachers & renamed. Vincent Ysart & Stuart Drysdale (until 1968). John Deacons (1967)
Strömbergshyttan
Småland, Sweden (1933 - 1979)
Formerly the Lindefors glassworks (founded 1876). Edvard/Gerda Strömberg (1933-55), H J Dunne-Cooke (1930s), Asta Strömberg (1930s-1976), Gunnar Nylund (1952-75), Rune Strand (1960s), Anders Solfors & Lars Wigell (1970s). Factory destroyed by fire in 1973, company taken over by Orrefors 1976, closed 1979
Stronie Glassworks (Huta Szkla Krystalowego w. Stroniu Slaskim)
Stronie, Poland (known to be active 1960s)
L Gajos
Stuart & Mills
Stourbridge, England (c 1870s)
Hand-blown glass (1 design registered 22/3/1871)
Stuart & Sons
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England (1881 - )
Frederick Stuart. Ludwig Kny (1920s/30s), Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, Eric Ravilious, H R Pierce (c 1939), G John Luxton (1948). Bought out by Waterford Wedgwood. Name changed to Stuart Crystal, closed down November 2001 (40 designs registered from 1886 to 1939)
Stuart Strathearn
Acid-etched mark seen on vases, presumably the Strathearn works and/or craftsmen absorbed into Stuart & Sons c 1975
Stumpf, Touvier, Viollet & Cie (see Pantin, Cristallerie de)
S.V.A.
Murano, Venice, Italy (current)
Classic Murano chandeliers made to design
Swarovski glassworks
Wattens, Austria (20th Century)
Cut crystal ornaments & paperweights
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