For #NationalLobsterDay 🦞:

Giorgio Liberale (Italian, 1527–1579)  

Mediterranean #lobster, 1558

parchment, H 640 mm (25.19 in) X W 870 mm (34.25 in)

Austrian National Library

#NationalLobsterDay 🦞:

Bowl with design of a #lobster (ise-ebi)

Japan, 17th c.

Earthenware w/ polychrome glaze (Ko-Kiyomizu ware)

H. 11.2 cm Diam. 26 cm

Met 2019.193.69

🆔 Japanese Spiny Lobster (Panulirus japonicus), an auspicious symbol of longevity

#FishFriday :

Théo van Rysselberghe (Belgian,1862-1926) Rascasses et homards dans un aquarium, 1909 oil on board laid down on cradled panel 54.8 x 72.7 cm (21 5/8 x 28 5/8 in.)

Velvet Scoter, Rose Fish, & Norway Lobster, illustrated by Jonas Haas (Germany 1720 - Denmark 1775) in An Account of the Laplanders of Finmark, their Language, Manners, and Religion, published 1767. Nasjonalmuseet NMK.2021.0112.098,099,100

#FishFriday :

Rita Angus (New Zealand, 1908-1970) Fish V, 1969 oil on hardboard, H 61.0 x L 60.6 cm Te Papa 1970-0012-2

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate...here's a c. 1880 Christmas card with a mouse riding a lobster, holding a note that reads "Paix, Joie, Santé, Bonheur" ("Peace, Joy, Health, Happiness"). Victorian era Christmas cards were weird. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

For #NationalLobsterDay 🦞:

Anton Seder (German, 1850-1916)

Art Nouveau lobsters, Plates 2 & 9 from Das Thier in der Decorativen Kunst (1896)

For #NationalLobsterDay: 🦞

Terracotta vase in the form of a lobster claw

Greece, Attic, c. 460 BCE

Terracotta; red-figure

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 23.160.57

“Because so many aspects of Greek life depended on the sea, a vase in the shape of a lobster claw is not surprising. It is, however, exceptional and may be a variant of the askos—a bag-shaped oil container provided with a vertical mouth and strap handle. The Dionysiac iconography of the lobster claw suggests that it was a novelty item used at symposia (drinking parties).”