Name/Title
Placemat: Pot Herbs 133Description
A Country Prints production sample retained as a print record.
A placemat set with two silkscreen prints on linen.
Placemat: A four-color silkscreen print depicting glass and metal kitchen implements coupled with stylized herb plants within and around the vessels. Wert’s trailing vines frame the center of the mat and connect the left and right compositions.
Napkin: a one color silkscreen print offered in two colorways, black on solid blue linen, or copper on white linen.
This set appears in the c.1955 brochure “Country Prints Mat Sets and Luncheon Squares by Robert Darr Wert”, and is described on a c.1955 price list, “133 Pot Herbs — Green herb plants, set on copper pots in blue squares border each side of the white mat. All-over pattern of herb plants in either copper on white or black on blue for choice or mix of mat-size napkins”.
Edges are straight stitched and fringed.
A matching tile was also available; see images.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1954Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
Placemat: “wert by hand”, with solid red heart, lower right corner.
Napkin: “wert by hand”, with black outlined heart, lower left corner.Dimensions
Dimension Description
Placemat and NapkinWidth
18 inDepth
12 inMaterial
Bleached Linen, Bleached/Dyed Linen, Textile InkColors
Color
Brick Red, Green, Teal, BlackColor Notes
Placemat uses all four colors.
Napkin: teal refers to dyed linen, black refers to textile ink.
