Name/Title
Placemat: Country Tin 121Description
A Country Prints production sample retained as a print record.
A placemat set with two silkscreen designs.
Placemat: a four-color silkscreen print on white linen depicting ten painted tin vessels.
Napkin: a one color silkscreen print in black offered with a choice of three solid color linens, red, mustard, or green. The print depicts almost sixty tin vessels drawn in outline.
This set appears in the c.1955 brochure “Country Prints Mat Sets and Luncheon Squares by Robert Darr Wert”; see images.
Edges are straight stitched and fringed.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1954Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
“wert” on painted tin chest, lower left corner, and “by hand”, lower right corner.Dimensions
Dimension Description
Placemat and NapkinsWidth
17 inDepth
12 inMaterial
Bleached Linen, Textile InkColor
Green, chartreuse, Orange, Black
