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each featuring a couple--one by the sea

The expressive but subtly rendered brown

An Armour zodiac tray very similar to this one was featured in "Aluminum By Design

Studio Pottery Ikebana Vase by With Expressionistic Black and Dark Green Glazing decorative platter edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-michael-cohen-11754One need not be a skilled practitioner of ikebana to make striking use of this beautifully crafted ikebana vase, which lends itself to the display of a couple of small sprigs or something significantly more dramatic. Hand thrown, the vase is animated with expressionistically applied glazes of inky black and dark green. Signed Mostrom, I believe it was created by Thomas Field Mostrom (1959 2005), a ceramic artist who founded the Rare Earth Mudworks in