Moser Glassworks

The original company of Ludwig Moser & Söhne, founded in 1857 by Ludwig Moser in Karlovy Vary, was a glass workshop initially polishing and engraving and later designing and making the finest quality colorless and decorated art glass products. Engraving blanks from Loetz, Meyr's Neffe and Harrachov was performed by the workshop in the early years. Ludwig took over a glass factory in Meierhofen bei Karlsbad in 1893 to create a full service glassworks employing 400 people under the name of Karlsbaderglasindustrie Gesellschaft Ludwig Moser & Söhne where his sons Gustav and Rudolf also worked.

In 1904 Moser received a warrant to supply the Imperial Court of the Emperor of Austria and four years later became supplier to Edward VII. In 1915 the company exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition and was again awarded a medal, which Louis Comfort Tiffany and Charles Tuthill thought well deserved because to the outstanding quality of the hot glass applied decorations on colored Bohemian glass. Art Nouveau glass pieces were produced by Moser with surface decoration with natural themes and simple cameo glass. The Art Nouveau designs of heavily engraved lilies and the Fipop series from c. 1914 were some of the most notable objects. [From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moser_(glass_company)]