Name/Title
Placemat: Christmas Songs 125 (incomplete)Description
A placemat set of six designs (five documented). Each four-color silkscreen print is on an off-white linen placemat. Each placemat depicts a different Christmas carol, with four bars of music and a character/musician in ancient dress related to the song. The carols represented:
-“Good King Wenceslas”, with a king holding a cello.
-“Deck the Halls”, with a queen or princess playing a lute.
-“Joy to the World”, with a capped minstrel playing another form of lute.
-“Silent Night”, with Mary standing behind the manger, and a lamb resting in the foreground.
-“Little Town of Bethlehem” (undocumented).
-“O Come All Ye Faithful”, with a medieval woman in a peaked hat playing an early violin.
Sets of six, and twelve (two of each design) are listed on the Christmas 1960 Country Prints price list.
The “Deck the Halls” placemat was used as a napkin in a Hartford Courant editorial about holiday table settings, December 18, 1960; see images.
Edges are straight stitched and fringed.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1959Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
“wert by hand”, lower left corner of all four mats.Dimensions
Width
17 inDepth
11-1/2 inDimension Notes
Given by Etsy.com vendor.Material
Bleached Linen, Textile InkColor
Teal, chartreuse, Brown, Black
