Michael Cohen Mushroom Shaped Studio Pottery Ikebana Vase bird sculpture 25ʺl × 1ʺd × 2ʺh

25ʺl × 1ʺd × 2ʺh

it is also just a great little object to have sitting around

matted and framed

The deep brown glaze that covers the surface of the bull's body is predominately smooth

a member of the Committee of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy

Michael Cohen Mushroom Shaped Studio Pottery Ikebana Vase bird sculpture 25ʺl × 1ʺd × 2ʺhThis hand thrown mushroom shaped ikebana vase is one of my very favorite objects ever, a wonderfully unusual, whimsical yet functional sculpture that could inspire and host all sorts of fantastic ikebana arrangements. Only recently did I learn through my mother's sleuthing of pottery marks that it was made by Michael Cohen, a studio potter born in Boston in 1936, educated at Mass Art, and currently based in Amherst, Mass, where he continues to have a