Featured Burl wood Ikebana or drilled stump or both ?

Works great for our dried flowers.It's a gnarly old hunk of trunk with a hole drilled thru,the base sawed flat and it looks like it was lightly oiled once and has a patina.All wood,no other materials, no signature-works good.

 

Looks like part of a root?

 

Looks like root stock to me too.
The burning question tearing today's world apart is-Edo Period or 'Hippe w/ a Chainsaw' era ?

 

Looks like someone took a chainsaw to cut a cypress root from marshland (hence the darker wood colors).

 

Two other possibilities.

As a base for a sculpture mounted on top. Or...

Mounted as a specimen.

 

Cool Antidiem,so you're thinking it's cypress ?

 

Laura-I can buy both those answers.

 

Yes Bosco, it looks like cypress to this Southern gal! Marshland Cypress due to the dark and light discoloration that's so attractive a patina! I believe Laura got the use down correctly, so that's your flower drilled holes! Now that she found the glass eagle, it looks like that was once a display holder for that or something very similar indeed!

 

Thanks for all the help.A true picture of a mystery object like this is often built one person's opinion at a time,and with team work-we usually solve things !