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Lot 145
A pair of Bristol 'Non-Such' blue glass finger bowls by Isaac Jacobs, circa 1805
1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,147.50 inc. premium
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A pair of Bristol 'Non-Such' blue glass finger bowls by Isaac Jacobs, circa 1805
Of deep 'Bristol blue' colour, the rounded forms brightly gilded with a Greek Key border below the rims, 12.2cm and 12.4cm diam, signed 'I. Jacobs/ Bristol' on the base (2)
Footnotes
Isaac Jacobs was the son of Lazarus Jacobs, a Jewish immigrant from Frankfurt. Aged just 17, Isaac joined his father's glass company on Temple Street in the heart of Bristol's Jewish quarter. He inherited the business upon his father's death in 1796 and subsequently established the Non-Such Flint Glass Manufactory in the great gardens of Temple Street in 1805, where it is thought that glass such as this was both made as well as decorated. The factory closed in 1821 following Isaac's bankruptcy. A similar bowl is in Corning Museum of Glass (inv. no.58.2.1).
