Tile: As You Like It (TK) T-53

Object/Artifact

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Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Tile: As You Like It (TK) T-53.: Images: TheSnapDragonsLair, Etsy.com
Tile: As You Like It (TK) T-53.

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Name/Title

Tile: As You Like It (TK) T-53

Description

A four-color silkscreen underglaze print on a white tile blank depicting a country couple, each holding tools of daily work. Between them is a quote from Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”: “And this our life exempt from public haunt Finds tongues in trees books in the running brooks Sermons in stones and good in everything” The composition is bordered on three sides by trailing vines. Wert also used this quote as a subject for at least two framed silkscreen prints on linen; see “Framed Prints and Mounted Prints”. This tile appears in the brochure “Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints Tiles”, c.1960; see images.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Ceramo Studio, New York, Country Prints

Date made

circa 1959

Time Period

20th Century

Place

* Untyped Place

New York City

Notes

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

Inscription/Signature/Marks

“wert”, lower left corner.

Dimensions

Height

6 in

Width

6 in

Material

Ceramic, Cork, Oaktag Label Hanger, Colored Underglaze

Color

Blue, Brown, Green, Black