Sundry vintage Danish glass items by Holmegaard

Holmegaard Glassworks is a Danish glass company founded in 1825 by Countess Henriette Danneskiold-Samsøe. The company is located in the town of Fensmark, in the Holbæk Municipality of Denmark.

The company was founded after Count Christian Danneskiold-Samsoe petitioned the Danish king for permission to build a glassworks at Holmegaard Mose ("Holmegaard Bog"). He died before permission was granted. But after his death when permission was finally received his widow, Countess Henriette Danneskiold-Samsøe pursued the project and began production in 1825 of green bottles, moving on to table-glass within its first decade.

Much of its early work was derivative and inconsequential, but between the 1930s and 1980s its fortunes were transformed by the designs of Jacob E. Bang (1899-1965), Per Lütken (1916-98), and Bang's son, Michael (1944-2002). Today the company is known for its high-quality products of Danish design.

In 1990, Holmegaard more... merged with the Danish ceramics company Bing & Grøndahl to form Royal Copenhagen. The new company is known as Royal Copenhagen/Holmegaard A/S and the company's products are sold in over 100 countries around the world. less...