Name/Title
Placemat: Bottled Herbs 134Description
A silkscreen printed placemat set with two designs.
Placemat: a four-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting bottles and glassware containing stylized herb plants.
Napkin: a one color silkscreen print offered in two colorways, pink or brown print 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 in a c.1955 price list, “134 Bottled Herbs — A sweeter design, also on white, of herb plants caught in the authentic outlines of old bottles. In pink, chocolate, bottle green and black. Napkins as above [an all-over pattern of herb plants] but in pink or chocolate on white.”
A possible matching towel/wallhanging was also produced; see images.
Edges are straight stitched and fringed.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 pink heart, lower right corner.
Napkin: “wert by hand” with outlined heart, bottom left corner.Dimensions
Dimension Description
Placemat and NapkinWidth
18 inDepth
12 inMaterial
Textile Ink, Bleached LinenColor
Brown, Black, Green, Pink
