New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera- 2007.

Rooster

Artist Edwin Meaders (American, 1921 - 2015)

CultureAmerican

Date1991

MediumCobalt glazed stoneware

DimensionsOverall: 16 in. (40.6 cm)

InscribedIncised on bottom: "Edwin Meaders 2/21/1991".

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number94.1.3

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 115-2 - Wonderstudio

DescriptionThis is a figure of a tall rooster with cox-comb and wattles with stylized tail; it is of stoneware with a cobalt blue glassy glaze. It is raised on a round pedestal-like base which seems to have been thrown separately, although the join does not show. It was probably cast from a mold.

Exhibition History"Southern Pottery from the Collection of The Chrysler Museum", The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, March 3/4 - May 29, 1994.