History
Factory was founded in 1920's at Dijon by designer and owner Jean Noverdy.
Styles
Globular vases with long stemmed necks (like Berluzes by Daum). Normally lower half darker than neck. The upper halves were often flecked with coloured glass. Finish was matt.
Acid etched cameo glass (like late industrial Galle). Also operated retail outlet.
History
Combined with several factories. See encyclopedia.
Designers
Josef Velik (1910 -1919)
Alois Ritter (1910 -1919)
Styles
pre 1900 ~ ?
1900 ~ Art Glass
1930s Art Deco Perfume Bottles
Iridescent glass
Overlaid Glass threads in mesh
Jack-in-the-pulpit Vases + glass flowers pressed into sides with threads forming stems and leaves
Difficulties
Can be very similar to Loetz
History
1851@La Villette, Paris,Crystallerie de la Villette
1855@Pantin, Paris,Crystallerie de la Pantin
Numerous changes of name; Monot et Cie, Monot, Stumpf & Cie, Monot Pere et Fils & Stumpf, then Stumpf, Touvier, Viollet & Cie. After WW1 merged with Legras & Cie. See encyclopedia.
Designers
1900 H. Berlage - Table glass
1909 Camile Tutre de Varreux
1931 Auguste Heilgenstein
Styles
1878-Opaline glass, Ruby glass, Venetian glass, Rock crystal, iridescent glass called chine metallique
Copper & Gold xtals trapped between layers of glass called Rouge de Chine -
Paperweights - animals flowers reptiles of v. good quality
1900-iridescent glass almost totally.
Simple shapes, mottled or overlaid or etched with designs of flowers, landscapes, birds, figures often guilded
1910-de Varreux 2,3 layer cameo with iridescence & exotic scenes of flora & fauna.
Highly coloured signed de Vez V. Collectable
Other cameo produced marked Thiancourt
floral designs unusual colour combinations
1930 Heilgenstein Thick walled vessels in opaque glass acid etched with surface patterns (sometimes called cracked ice) all with Mont Joye mark & sometimes Aug. Heilgenstein
Difficulties.
Joined with Legras after WW1 to become Verreries et Cristalleries de St Denis et Pantin Reunies, An illustrated dictionary of glass by Newman indicates Degue signature is found on Pantin glass(?)
History See encyclopedia.
History
Modern production