Tile: Cookie Cutters T-17

Object/Artifact

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Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Tile: Cookie Cutters T-17.: PKM collection. Images: PKM
Tile: Cookie Cutters T-17.

PKM collection. Images: PKM

Name/Title

Tile: Cookie Cutters T-17

Description

A four-color silkscreen underglaze print on a white tile blank depicting the outlines of eight cookie cutter shapes on fields of yellow, pink and teal. White space between the fields is speckled in the field colors. This tile appears in the c.1955 brochure “Robert Darr Wert/Country Print Tiles”; see images.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints, Ceramo Studio, New York

Date made

circa 1954

Time Period

20th Century

Place

* Untyped Place

New York City

Notes

Design, silkscreens and underglaze colors produced at the Country Prints workshop in Gill, MA. Tile screen printing, glazing, firing and finishing produced by Ceramo Studio, NYC. This tile is printed on the thicker tile body used by Country Prints/Ceramo Studio prior to 1962. Found as a framed tile, the usual Country Print Tiles label hanger and cork pads were never applied.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Front: “wert” with pink heart, lower right corner. Back: tile blank producer’s imprint, “WHEELING” and “56” for the year the blank was made.

Dimensions

Height

3/8 in

Width

6 in

Depth

6 in

Material

White Tile Blank, Colored Underglaze, Clear Overglaze

Color

Yellow, Pink, Teal, Black