Name/Title
Napkin, Cocktail: Holiday 385Description
A set of Christmas themed cocktail napkins featuring four designs. The prints required six screens, producing eight colors on off-white linen. The four designs are:
1. Early stringed and woodwind instruments set against a brick fireplace along with holiday greens.
2. A woman decorating for the holidays as a little girl holds a lute and a gingerbread reindeer.
3. Another exploration of “Christmas Kitchen”, featuring baked goods, cooking implements and holiday decorations set against a cooking fireplace with an oven, and holiday greens.
4. A reference to the “Twelve Days of Christmas”, with a woman kneeling while churning butter and reaching into an espaliered pear tree to hold a partridge.
This set is listed on the Christmas 1960 Country Prints price list. The list states, “Four designs, as in the greetings [Gift Greetings]. One folder and Christmas Mailing envelope. 3 of each design to a doz.”
Edges are straight stitched and fringed.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1959Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
“wert”, lower right or left corner of each napkin.Materials
Material
Bleached Linen, Textile Ink, Flecked Paper, InkMaterial Notes
Flecked paper denotes the Country Prints tag.Colors
Color
Yellow, Light Brown, Beige, Teal, Red, Black, Copper, Dark BrownColor Notes
Copper is the product of overprinting yellow and red; dark brown shadows produced by overprinting light brown and red.
