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Victorian Bristol glass is known for its delicate and hand-painted motifs. The more desirable pieces show off finely drawn, fanciful decoration.
The finest glass was made at Bristol during the middle 1700′s. Advances in production allowed for the glass to become more affordable during the 1800′s. Today, the Bristol name is sometimes more synonymous with this lesser quality of opaque white glass, typically decorated with hand-painted landscapes, flowers or portraits.
Bristol glass ended up being manufactured in Germany, France, Bohemia, and Spain, besides England. None of the glass produced outside of Bristol was equal in quality to that of Bristol. Today, genuine old Bristol glass is rare. Most of the glass that dealers and collectors call Bristol was actually made in German or Dutch.
Bristol glass has brilliant color, especially in its deeper blues. The common opaque milky-white character is often ribbed with white streaks or accented in blue, red or yellow.