Bowl with Fish and Clover Design

Artist

Miyawaki Akihiko (Japanese, b. 1939)

Date

1970s-80s

Medium

Glazed porcelain

Dimensions

Work : 5 x 14 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (12.7 x 36.2 x 36.2 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Maurice Kawashima

Object Number

1990.3.6

Label

This cleverly composed porcelain bowl gives the illusion of looking into a pond at a school of fish circling among water plants. Artist Akihiko Miyawaki is a graduate of Tokyo University of the Arts where he studied with Fujimoto Yoshimichi and Asano Yo.