Canine Marsupial Bottle Stopper

Mystery animal bottle stopper (wee bottle not included). Head is 1.75″ ear-to-ear.

If I had to guess what animal this is, I would guess a cross between a kangaroo and a dog. Looks friendly enough.

Since March of 2020, I have been involved in a collaborative math-art installation called Mathemalchemy. Among my many tasks: create a ceramic head for Arnold the Cat (named for mathematician Vladimir Arnold), who bakes tessellating pi cookies. This bottle stopper features an early attempt that clearly went awry. It’s glazed with my speckly amber glaze, and I like how the microcrystalline speckles look on…whatever animal this is.