The flared bowl with folded rim and moulded gadrooned base, is presented on a triple-knopped stem and folded conical foot. A transitional piece, moving from the ‘Venetian’ style of glass fashionable up to the mid-17th. century, it is an early piece in the newly discovered ‘flint’ or lead crystal, which was to make English glass pre-eminent in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. See Keith Kelsall, The Footed Salver p.65, for a discussion of a very similar example.
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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.
