Name/Title
Tile: Kitchen Blessing (TK)Description
A four-color silkscreen overglaze print on a white tile blank featuring a kitchen blessing, a cast iron cook stove, and various cooking implements.
The blessing reads, “Bless this kitchen to thy glory - and my family’s good. Help me to love this room as well as those it serves and to provide welcome, order, beauty and nourishing fare - and to find the joy to create - and the strength to be patient”.
A matching Plowshares Kitchen Pockets wallhanging and calendar towel were also produced; see images. It is likely a matching towel/wallhanging was produced but has yet to be documented.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country Prints, Ceramo Studio, New YorkDate made
circa 1962 - circa 1965Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
* Untyped Place
New York CityNotes
This example is printed on the thinner tile body used by Country Prints/Ceramo Studio from 1962 onward.
Design, screen production, and mixing of colored overglazes performed at the Country Prints workshop, Gill, MA. Screen printing of overglaze colors, firing and finishing by Ceramo Studio, NYC.Inscription/Signature/Marks
Front: “wert”, lower left corner, and “by hand”, lower right corner.
Back: Country Prints/Ceramo Studio imprint.Dimensions
Height
1/4 inWidth
6 inLength
6 inMaterial
White Tile Blank, Overglaze Colors, Cork, InkColor
Red, Black, chartreuse, Dark Teal
