The blue and green glass jars, with flared necks and rims, include pinched decoration and detail and moulded leaf-pattern to the bodies, and the bases have a concave centre which allows the piece to stand firmly. All, save the two round bottomed flasks with everted rims, which would possibly have been used for sprinkling powder or flavourings, were probably used as containers for oil, and are associated with Roman and Hellenistic cemetery sites.
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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.
