As You Like It (TK) tile on thinner tile body used in the 1960’s.
Images: Green Acres Country Store, ebay.com
Name/Title
Tile: As You Like It (TK) T-53, Thinner Tile Body
Description
A four-color silkscreen overglaze print on a white glazed tile blank depicting a country couple, each holding tools of daily work. Between them is a quote from Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”:
“And this our life
exempt from public haunt
Finds tongues in trees
books in the running brooks
Sermons in stones
and good in everything”
The composition is bordered on three sides by trailing vines.
Wert also used this quote as a subject for at least two framed silkscreen prints on linen; see “Framed Prints and Mounted Prints”.
The earlier version of this tile on the thicker underglaze tile appears in the brochure “Robert Darr Wert/Country Prints Tiles”, c.1960; see images.
Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr Wert
Role
Artist
Manufacturer
Ceramo Studio, New York, Country Prints
Date made
circa 1962
Time Period
20th Century
Place
* Untyped Place
New York City
Notes
This example is printed on the thinner glazed white tile base used by Country Prints/Ceramo Studios after 1962.
Design, screen production, and mixing of colored overglazes performed at the Country Prints studio, Gill, MA. Screen printing of colors and firing by Ceramo Studio, NYC.
