Tile: Pinks, Milk-Maid (TK)

Object/Artifact

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Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Tile: Pinks, Farmer’s Wife (TK), c.1956.: PKM collection. Images: PKM
Tile: Pinks, Farmer’s Wife (TK), c.1956.

PKM collection. Images: PKM

Name/Title

Tile: Pinks, Milk-Maid (TK)

Description

A four-color silkscreen underglaze print on a white tile blank depicting a milk-maid standing near a farm building holding a milk pail and milking stool. A sheep stands by her side. Fruiting trees flank the farm building. This tile is one of a set of four, only three of which have been documented. This design was also available as a set of four framed prints, and a set of four unmounted Gift Greeting prints; see images.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints, Ceramo Studio, New York

Date made

circa 1956

Time Period

20th Century

Place

* Untyped Place

New York City

Notes

Design, screen production, and mixing of colored underglazes performed at the Country Prints workshop, Gill, MA. Screen printing of underglaze colors, clear glaze, firing and finishing by Ceramo Studio, NYC. This example is printed on the thicker tile body used by Country Prints/Ceramo Studio prior to 1962. On tile back, to the left of the tile manufacturer’s name, Wheeling, is the number 56, which indicates the year the tile blank was made.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Front: “wert”, lower left corner. Back: “WHEELING”, “56”, “1/9” in a circle, “2”, and “REG”.

Dimensions

Height

3/8 in

Width

6 in

Depth

6 in

Material

White Tile Blank, Colored Underglaze, Clear Overglaze

Color

Pink, Aqua, Brown, Black