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A thin porcelain conical bowl with a direct rim on a footring.  The interior has incised double fish decorations and six linear divisions around the walls.  It is covered in a white glaze with a bluish tinge, and an unglazed rim.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bowl
12th century
Gift of Willard A. and Marybelle Bouchard Hanna
1991/2.15
A round water dropper in the shape of a curled fish. There are two holes, one located in the middle, near the tail fin, and the other near the head on the dorsal fin. The fish is a white and cobalt blue color.<br /> <br /> This is a carp-shaped water dropper produced within the vicinity of Bunwon-ri, Gwangju-si, and Yeoju-si area in Gyeonggi-do in the late 19th century. Its upper surface features a realistic carp design in relief and entirely colored with cobalt blue. Such animal-shaped vessels are simple in form, but they were esteemed by many for their auspicious meaning. The base is flat, wide, and stained by ink.<br /> [Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2014) p.184]
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Blue-and-White Water Dropper in the Shape of a Fish
1867 – 1899
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
2004/1.286
A porcelain fluted bowl with a scalloped rim on a foot ring. The exterior is painted with fish and aquatic plants, the interior rim is painted with a zigzag border. The bowl is covered with a clear glaze.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bowl
1662 – 1722
Gift of the Estate of Hobart Taylor, Jr.
1982/1.214
A small stoneware bowl on a foot ring with an everted flat rim. The exterior is carved to represent lotus petals, the interior molded with two fish. The bowl is covered in a green craqueleur celadon glaze.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bowl
13th century
Gift of Toshiko Ogita in memory of Tomoo Ogita
1987/1.292
5 physical tears on left edge, indicating the original book bindings.<br /> TOP IMAGE. A river appears in lower right corner, traveling from &quot;front&quot; to &quot;back&quot; of image. Along its banks two distant windmills occur, indicating Holland as the location. A distant boat with sails, and a closer group of three row boats on river. The closer group has thee figures bent over their work, which looks like hauling nets. In the center is a nearly barren twisted tree, at whose base is a rough hut of blanks and branches. A path from the bottom right bends up and around the hut and tree, on which a small group of three are poised (two sitting figures appear to listen to a standing third) and a single man travels further into the distance. Houses with thatched roofs, some patched with boards, appear on the right of the image, along the riverbanks into the distance.<br /> BOTTOM IMAGE. A river curves gently back from the bottom right. Boulders surround the bank on the left half of the image, with scraggly
Franz Edmund Weirotter
TOP: Fishermen with the Inhauler of the Nets at the Town’s Shore (Fischer beim Einholen der Netze am Ufer vor der Stadt), sheet 4 from the folio 12 Views of Normandy (XII Vues de la Normandie) BOTTOM: River Landscape with Four Men Encamping on a Rock (Flußlandschaft mit vier auf einem Fels lagernden Männern), sheet 5 from the folio 12 Views of Normandy (XII Vues de la Normandie)
Gift of the Ernst Pulgram and Frances McSparran Collection
2007/2.113

Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Arita ware shallow dish with landscape scene of fishing boats by a willow tree
19th century
Gift of Toshiko Ogita in memory of Tomoo Ogita
1987/1.304
Swift, spontaneous brushwork is used to capture a winter landscape. Two fishermen, wearing wide-brimmed straw hats and thatched grass rain capes, work their way through the heavy snow as they cross a bridge, carrying nets on their shoulders.<br />
Jiang Song
Fishermen Returning in the Evening Snow
1500 – 1532
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1976/2.139
A short, round clay vessel, wide at the middle while narrowing toward the top and bottom. The top half of the vessel is decorated with  3 alternating human faces and 3 fish, perhaps mudfish.   There are also alternating columns and triangles around the top half, each decorated with various patterns of lines. The neck of the vessel is decorated with horizontal grooves. 
Yoruba (Yoruba (culture or style))
Pot
1900 – 1932
Gift of Dr. James and Vivian Curtis
2000/2.108
a northern celadon bowl of conical shape, incised with abstract depictions of fish and waves on interior, small ring foot
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Yaozhou ware bowl with incised design of three fish in a pond
1100 – 1299
Museum Purchase
1950/2.16
This carp-shaped water dropper is unique in that its tail is larger than those of many similar vessels. The vessel was entirely glazed including the base and retains wide marks of refractory spurs in three places. This is one of many figurative water droppers produced in large quantities within the vicinity of Bunwon-ri, Gwangju-si, and Yeoju-si in Gyeonggi-do in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.<br /> [Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2014) p.184]
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Blue-and-White Water Dropper in the shape of a fish
1850 – 1899
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
2004/1.287
The pyramid shaped hills in the background of this print are those of the boiling houses and salt piles of Gyôtoku’s salt industry. A ferry boat, or watashi-bune, carries passengers in the foreground of this picture. In this print a shipman steers using the large rudder located in the back of the boat.
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese (culture or style))
Eight Views of Edo Suburbs: Fishing Boats Returning to Gyôtoku
1835 – 1842
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1948/1.138
A small stoneware bowl on a foot ring with everted flat rim.  The interior is molded with two fish and covered in a green celadon glaze.  There is significant loss to rim and sides.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Bowl
13th century
Gift of Willard A. and Marybelle Bouchard Hanna
1991/2.14
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