Photograph by Ed Pollard, Sony a7R II 2022.

Squirrel

Artist Richard Meitner (American, b. 1949)

Date2000

MediumFlameworked and mold-blown glass with rust patina; blown glass, blue-dyed water, and rubber cork

Dimensions36 1/2 × 11 × 9 1/4 in. (92.7 × 27.9 × 23.5 cm)

ClassificationsGlass

Credit LineGift of Lisa Shaffer Anderson and Dudley Buist Anderson

Object number2021.28.17

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DescriptionThis is a multipart sculpture that consists of three separate parts that fit together, one on top of the next. Beginning at the base, there is a hollow section of glass coated with a rusty-iron finish that looks like an upside-down truncated cone. On top of this rests a round flask of colorless transparent glass with a short neck and rubber stopper; the interior of the flask is meant to be filled with blue-dyed water. The third section of the sculpture is of hollow glass coated with a rusty-iron finish, shaped like a squirrel; the ‘legs’ of the squirrel are a hollow tube that fits over and conceals the middle flask’s neck and stopper. The squirrel holds a gold colored cone.