Name/Title
Placemat: Buttermold 113, Bottle GreenDescription
A placemat and napkin set with a three-color silkscreen print on off-white linen. The placemat illustration depicts seven buttermolds, each with a different American eagle carving. The matching napkin depicts a butter churn, wooden bowl and butter paddle.
This placemat set is listed on the Spring 1958 and January 1960 Country Prints price lists in four colorways (red, brown, green, or blue). It also appears in the c.1960 brochure “Mat Sets by Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints”, p.2, and “Country Prints by Robert Darr Wert and Neighbors”, c.1963. See brochure images below.
Edges are stitched and fringed.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1957Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
Placemat: “wert by hand”, lower right corner.
Napkin: unsigned.Material
Textile Ink, Unbleached Linen
