A three-color silkscreen underglaze print on a white tile blank depicting silhouettes of early-American kitchen implements superimposed with Wert’s interpretation of calico textile patterns. This tile was produced in at least two colorways, red and brown. This example is in brown.
This tile appears in the c.1953 brochure “Robert Darr Wert/Country Print Tiles”; see images.
A matching placemat set, anpron and tablecloth were also produced; see images.
Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr Wert
Role
Artist
Manufacturer
Ceramo Studio, New York, Country Prints
Date made
circa 1953
Time Period
20th Century
Place
* Untyped Place
New York City
Notes
This example is on the thicker tile base used by Country Prints/Ceramo Studio before 1962.
Design, screen production, and mixing of colored underglazes performed at the Country Prints workshop, Gill, MA. Screen printing of underglaze colors, clear glaze and firing by Ceramo Studio, NYC.
Inscription/Signature/Marks
“r. darr wert”, with red heart, lower right corner.
