Tile: Daily Bread T-64

Object/Artifact

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Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Tile: Daily Bread T-64.: Images: KitschNCloth, Etsy.com
Tile: Daily Bread T-64.

Images: KitschNCloth, Etsy.com

Name/Title

Tile: Daily Bread T-64

Description

A three-color silkscreen underglaze print on a white tile blank depicting wheat and three types of bread in support of the phrase from the Lord’s Prayer, “Our daily bread”. 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

Country Prints, Ceramo Studio, New York

Date made

circa 1959

Time Period

20th Century

Place

* Untyped Place

New York City

Notes

This design is printed on a tile body manufactured by the Wheeling Tile Company before they closed in 1962. Design, screen production, and mixing of colored overglazes performed at the Country Prints workshop, Gill, MA. Screen printing of overglaze colors, firing and finishing by Ceramo Studio, NYC.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Front: unsigned. Back: Country Print Tiles/Ceramo Studio label hanger.

Dimensions

Height

1/4 in

Diameter

6 in

Material

White Tile Blank, Colored Underglaze, Clear Overglaze, Oaktag Label Hanger, Cork

Color

Brown, Yellow Ochre, Dark Brown