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Prinknash Abbey's Bewick's Beastes chargers carry Thomas Bewick's 1790 wildlife engravings inside zebra and leopard borders. His animals come from A General History of Quadrupeds, which the Newcastle engraver illustrated. Read its story.
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Thomas Bewick was born at Cherryburn in Northumberland in 1753 and spent most of his working life in Newcastle. He worked in parallel lines instead of cross-hatching, and here that method lends his beasts a wide range of tones and textures. These chargers frame them in borders drawn in rich black.
The Prinknash workshop began in the early 1940s, the story goes. A monk named Dom Asaph Harris experimented with clay from the foundations of the new abbey, and in time it was set up on a commercial basis. These chargers are fine English earthenware, each one a gallery of eighteenth-century naturalist art in miniature.
Gold detailing rings each rim, a warm halo around the graphic borders. Within them the beasts seem to pause mid-stride, as alive here as they were on the printed page.
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