Michael Cohen Mushroom Shaped Studio Pottery Ikebana Vase bird sculpture (The Coushatta are a matrilineal

(The Coushatta are a matrilineal society native to Southwest Louisiana recognized as a sovereign nation in 1973

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

including the suitor

Massachusetts that included mid-century furnishings and a huge collection of animal-related art and objects from around the world

matted and framed

Michael Cohen Mushroom Shaped Studio Pottery Ikebana Vase bird sculpture (The Coushatta are a matrilinealThis 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