Name/Title
Placemat: Calico Hearts 128, c.1954, AquaDescription
This example is a Country Prints internal sample, kept as a record of the company’s print production.
A placemat set with a four-color silkscreen print on off-white linen placemats and a two-color print on dyed aqua linen napkins.
The placemat design depicts a woman in eighteenth century dress, a rooster, village and apple trees filled with heart shaped apples. The border of the composition is completed with scrolled line work in aqua at bottom, and yellow ochre at top, and a field of brown circles, yellow ochre stars and aqua heart shaped apples. The aqua napkins are screened in an asymmetrical composition of blue and brown hearts punctuated with brown stars.
This set appears in the c.1955 brochure “Country Prints Mat Sets and Luncheon Squares by Robert Darr Wert”; see images. The set was produced in two colorways: pink and green on white linen (this example), and aqua and brown on white linen, with two napkin options, solid pink or solid aqua with printed hearts and stars.
This set is described in a c.1955 Country Prints price list, “Provincial design in soft pastels. Rose or Aqua on white with matching solid napkins sprinkled with tiny hearts. Apron to match #421 [Province Hearted].” It is also described on the Spring 1958 Country Prints price list in the same two colorways.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1953Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
Placemats: “by hand”, lower left corner; “w” in heart signet, lower right corner.
Napkins: unsignedDimensions
Dimension Description
Placemats & NapkinsWidth
17-3/4 inDepth
12 inDimension Description
Pack BoardWidth
18-1/2 inDepth
12-1/2 inMaterials
Material
Bleached Linen, Bleached/Dyed Linen, Textile InkMaterial Notes
Placemats are bleached linen; napkins are bleached and dyed linen.Colors
Color
Pink, chartreuse, Dark Green, BrownColor Notes
All four colors are used on white placemats. Chartreuse and brown are used on pink napkins.
