Description: Black metallic lustre Prinknash Abbey Pitcher Ref. J-29
Maker: Hand made by the monks of Prinknash Abbey, Gloucestershire, England.
Date: 1950-1980 estimated
History: For nearly 900 years the land known as Prinknash has been associated with Benedictine monks. In 1096 the Giffard family, who had come to England with William the Conqueror, made a gift of the land to Serlo, Abbot of Saint Peter's, Gloucester. A large part of the present building was built during the abbacy of William Parker, the last Abbot of Gloucester, around the year 1520.
It remained in the abbey's hands until the suppression of the monasteries in 1539 when it was rented from the Crown by Sir Anthony Kingston who was to provide 40 deer annually to King Henry VIII, who used the House as a hunting lodge. Prinknash Park continued to be used as a home for the gentry and nobility of Gloucestershire during the next few centuries and each generation left its mark on the property. On 1 August 1928 a Deed of Covenant was made out by the twentieth Earl of Rothes, the grandson of Thomas Dyer Edwards, a Catholic convert, whose wish was that Prinknash should be given to the Benedictine monks of Caldey Island. These monks had converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1913 under the leadership of Abbot Ælred Carlyle.
The Prinknash Abbey Pottery was founded in 1942 by the monks when they found a seam of clay during some building work. Their work is typically red earthenware, often with a metallic glaze.
It closed in 1997.
Marks/Observations: A very attractive earthenware pitcher with a striking grey pewter sheen glaze, hand made and with the Prinknash imprinted back stamp. A very interesting part of history which will not be repeated
Condition: Two small flaws, one on the handle and a small crack on the rim, both not easily seen.
Dimensions: The pitcher stands 16 cm high and has a diameter of 11 cm.
Price: R250.00
Please note, I am NOT a qualified archaeologist/antiquarian and the description I have given is based on research of the subject.
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