Tile: Herb Chart 520

Object/Artifact

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Robert Darr Wert & Country Prints

Tile: Herb Chart 520.: PKM collection. Images: PKM
Tile: Herb Chart 520.

PKM collection. Images: PKM

Name/Title

Tile: Herb Chart 520

Description

A five-color silkscreen overglaze print on a glazed white tile blank depicting an herb chart listing specific uses for over a dozen annual and perennial herbs. Trailing vines complete the composition. A matching towel/wallhanging and apron were also produced; see images. These items were available singly or in matched gift sets. This tile appears in the brochures “Country Prints by Robert Darr Wert and Neighbors”, c.1963 and c.1966, see images.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Robert Darr Wert

Role

Artist

Manufacturer

Country Prints, Ceramo Studio, New York

Date made

circa 1962

Time Period

20th Century

Place

* Untyped Place

New York City

Notes

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. This design is printed on the thinner tile body used by Country Prints/Ceramo Studio from 1962 onward.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

“wert”, lower left corner, and “by hand”, lower right corner.

Dimensions

Height

1/4 in

Width

6 in

Depth

6 in

Material

White Tile Blank, Overglaze Colors, Cork

Color

Orange, Brown, Green, Black, Beige