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Primary Description:
Colorless, opaque black (appearing) glasses, opaque orange enamel; blown, tooled, acid-etched (vessel), flameworked (chain and carrot), enameled (carrot), iridized (hook). (a) Tall cylindrical vessel tapering in towards lipless opening that has been distorted to form a tear-drop shape, overall surface etching producing frosted appearance that fades to colorless near base; near opening is an applied dark (appearing opaque black with iridization) tapered and pointed hook with shallow curve extending out at almost right angle to vessel wall, below hook at mid-section on one side only, the wall has been tooled to form a crease, lower half of wall bulges out near base, slightly concave base with unfrosted finish, rough pontil; (b) blown object with elongated softly-pointed end, small hole with raised edge near tip of curved broad end, overall orange enameling producing opaque matte surface, attached with a small patty at broad end is a tear-drop shaped loop of colorless that is connected to eleven lozenge shaped links, end link hangs from hook; (a) inscribed in script around pontil: "R. Meitner '94".
Exhibitions (3)

Masters of Studio Glass: Richard Craig Meitner
Venue(s)
Museum of Glass 2010-07-17 through 2011-06-19


Mieke Groot and Richard Meitner
Venue(s)
Braggiotti Gallery 1994-12-03 through 1995-01-22
Publications (10)
Contemporary Glass Vessels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2015)
illustrated, p. 8, 45, 146-147 (fig. 102, plate 50);
BIB# 149403
Museum of Glass Presents the Witty Work of Richard Craig Meitner (2010)
illustrated, p. 26 (right);
BIB# 720282
Corning Museum of Glass: Exhibition Explores the Work of Richard Craig Meitner (2009-02)
illustrated, p. 79;
Arte de vidrio contemporaneo usando el soplete (2006)
illustrated, p. 323, bottom;
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000)
illustrated, p. 96, #168;
BIB# 65446
Some of the Best in Recent Glass (1996-02)
illustrated, p. 103;
New Glass Review, 17 (1996)
illustrated, p. 35;