This matching vase and bowl, designed for use together as a punch bowl, or separately as displayed, is something of a puzzle. It was bought originally in the early 1930s as Waterford glass, and the thickness of the walls and the characteristic patterns of the cutting, are typical of early to mid nineteenth century work, but the shape of the vase and bowl suggest a much later date. It may derive from one of the many small glass-works which flourished in and around the city during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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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.
