Lucki's Fish Blog

Beautiful fish bowl from Iran-the fish are the sun

I'm back! With more fishbowl-centric posts. This is a stonepaste bowl from 13th century Iran, Kashan.

I love this bowl it is so intricate and gorgeous

fish trinkets from Cypriot (Cyprus), Japan, and Korea

Terracotta fish askos (vessel) from Cypriot in 1200–1175 BCE, small ivory figurine of two fish from 19th century Japan, small amber figurine from 19th century Japan, Porcelain fish water dropper from late 19th century Korea

Incredible images from neurological studies done on zebrafish

Top to bottom: cover of Journal of neuroscience 2012, image displays how the brain and spinal chord work together to control complex movements; 2009 image examines serotonergic raphe neurons; 2020 image of Zebrafish embryo under a fluorescent microscope; 2019 image of first interactive cell atlas for the brain of zebrafish

Unironically get so excited when a post I thought was really cool but no one liked gets lots of notes weeks later tee hee

Zen Water

Beautiful ink drawing by Premalatha H Seshadri, 1988

Yuan Dynasty porcelain dish

Produced in the 14th century in Longquan (龍泉)

archival footage: clownfish keeps close to a sea anemone

this clip is very beautiful to me--you can see the motion of the water in the way the anemone moves

close up images of beautiful trout scales

Via Pinterest: rainbow trout, brown trout, brown trout, brook trout

Little fish prints at the corners of Japanese calligraphy works

these are so precious!

Citations top left to bottom right: artist and date not listed, Ren'ei 1980, Seido 1980, Insai (筠斎) 1847

Kintaro Catches the Giant Carp (金太郎捕鯉魚)

Meiji Era fish print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡芳年), July 1885

Collection of colorful stamps from New Zealand

I'm back! did everyone know that New Zealand makes beautiful fish stamps?? more to come!

Citations top left to bottom right:

Scarlet Parrotfish stamp (1970), Longspined porcupine fish stamp (1998), Yellowtail Kingfish stamp (2011), Splendid Perch Mayor Island stamp (2008), Moonfish stamp (1998), Underwater photographer and Goatfish stamp (1979)

fish are deeply surreal to me

fun fish lapel pins from around the world

aluminum pin from the Soviet Union, FK Vardar Skopje pin from North Macedonia (1979), aluminum pin from Spain, PZW Koło Pafawag Wrocław pin from Poland, Swordfish multinational foods pin from Canada, Koi pin from the Netherlands (1999)