The glass, cased green with white trailing is most likely to have been made in Stourbridge, and is of exceptional quality. The manufacturer of the silver wirework holder is unknown, the maker’s mark being unclear. The design owes much to the Arts and Crafts movement, and is likely to have been manufactured by a small crafts worker, rather than the output from a large firm. The modest size and simplification of this example shows how radically design had changed from the previous ornate examples of high Victorian style.
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The Bristol Blue Glass Museum holds over 350 items of glass, showing the development of the manufacture of glass from ca. 1500 B.C. to the present day. It contains pieces of Egyptian, Roman, Viking, Anglo Saxon and Medieval glass, but the main interest of the collection lies in the examples of manufacture from all the principal English glass-works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
