Name/Title
Placemat: Bottles 125, c.1954Description
A placemat with a six-color silkscreen print on off-white linen depicting glass bottles displayed in wood cabinets on either side of the mat. The twenty-seven bottles illustrated are hand blown, mold blown, and painted/enameled. Across the top of the mat, the design is unified with a blue calico valance and trailing vines of ivy. The title “BOTTLES” appears at lower left.
The three matching napkins have silkscreen printed color fields on white linen with a black print of antique bottles. Later versions are printed on dyed blue linen.
This set is described in a c.1955 Country Prints price list, “A near document on hand-blown glass in correct colors. Solid color napkins to match in Early Red, Green or Blue — matching runner #218 — white.”
Edges are straight-stitched and fringed.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1953Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
Placemat: “RDW” and “by hand” with green heart, lower right corner. Title “Bottles”, lower left corner.
Napkins: “w” in heart, lower left corner.Dimensions
Dimension Description
Placemat and NapkinsWidth
18 inDepth
12 inMaterial
Textile Ink, Bleached LinenColor
Brick Red, Brown, Dark Green, Aqua, Yellow Ochre, Teal
