Name/Title
Placemat: Christmas Songs 125Description
Note: Temp photos.
A placemat set of six designs. Each four-color silkscreen print is on an off-white linen placemat. Each placemat depicts a different traditional Christmas song, with four bars of music and a character/musician in ancient dress related to the history of the song. The songs represented:
-“Deck the Halls”, with a queen or princess playing a lute.
-“Good King Wenceslas”, with a king holding a cello.
-“Joy to the World”, with a capped minstrel playing another form of lute.
-“Oh Come All Ye Faithful”, with a medieval woman in a peaked hat playing an early violin.
-“Oh Little Town of Bethlehem ”.
-“Silent Night”, with Mary standing behind the manger, and a lamb resting in the foreground.
Sets of six, and twelve (two of each design) are listed on the Christmas 1960 Country Prints price list.
This is the only known placemat set for Christmas produced by Country Prints.
The “Deck the Halls” design 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 six mats.Dimensions
Width
17 inDepth
11-1/2 inDimension Notes
Given by Etsy.com vendor.Material
Bleached Linen, Textile InkColor
Teal, chartreuse, Brown, Black
