Tile: Poor Richard’s, Fine Linen (TK)

Object/Artifact

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Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Tile: Fine Linen (TK).: PKM collection. Images: PKM
Tile: Fine Linen (TK).

PKM collection. Images: PKM

Name/Title

Tile: Poor Richard’s, Fine Linen (TK)

Description

A four-color silkscreen underglaze print on a white tile blank depicting a woman in a yellow calico dress holding a candle and a gold coin. A maxim from Poor Richard’s Almanac forms the border, “Fine linen, girls and gold so bright chuse not to take by candle light” Beyond the candle and gold coin is a wall hanging in blue labeled “POOR RICHARD’S ALMANAC”, with a figure wearing a hat and holding a scale. Around the figure are zodiac symbols. This may represent an undocumented towel/wallhanging produced by Country Prints. This is one of a series of at least fourteen tiles featuring maxims from Poor Richard’s Almanac.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Ceramo Studio, New York, Country Prints

Date made

circa 1956 - circa 1959

Time Period

20th Century

Place

* Untyped Place

New York City

Notes

Design, screen production, and mixing of colored underglazes performed at the Country Prints workshop, Gill, MA. Screen printing of underglaze colors, clear glaze, firing and finishing by Ceramo Studio, NYC. This example is printed on the thicker tile body used by Country Prints/Ceramo Studio prior to 1962.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Front: “p.r’s ALMANAC wert by hand”, lower right corner. Back: Country Print Tiles label hanger.

Dimensions

Height

3/8 in

Width

6 in

Length

6 in

Material

White Tile Blank, Colored Underglaze, Clear Overglaze, Oaktag Label Hanger, Cork

Color

Blue-Gray, Yellow, Light Brown, Black