Fish symbol?

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Any idea what this fish symbol is? On ceramic pot, just won on a tombola stall!

Isn't it the artists 'signature' like a brand label type thing?

On pottery like that I’d guess it represents the potter who made it, they often charge little images into the clay as they can’t really sign their work like a painter would.

Just wondered if anyone had spotted the mark on something else.

Lovely mark. There's a clothing brand that uses similar. Can't think of the name. Very popular in norfolk

The clothing brand is Weird Fish.

Weird Fish, sold in Go Outdoors etc.

Could the brand be Weird Fish, *mydogisagentleman"?

Ha a right old crosspost there

Google lens says its by an artist called Pierre Bradford

Always was in historic times secret sign of a christian

The Christian symbol is a fish with flesh though, isn't it? Not bones showing.

Some really interesting answers here!

Cat bowl?

afaik always just 2 arcs not a bony one.

Yes, because in Ancient Greek it stands for (courtesy of Wikipedia):

ἸΧΘΥΣ is an acronym or acrostic[14] for "Ἰησοῦς Χρῑστός Θεοῦ Υἱός Σωτήρ", which translates into English as "Jesus Christ, God's Son, Saviour".

It's the Greek word for fish and ichthys is the way it's usually transliterated. The link shows the very simple fish sign you can still see in the catacombs in Rome and other places where early Christians used it as a secret sign.

I was always intrigued by a similar symbol in the email signature of a work client.

His job title suggested he was quite high up at the UK arm of a Japanese electronics company yet he had a cartoon fish in his email sig. Unfortunately I didn't know him well enough to ask about it.

Interesting because the tombola stall was at a local school fair, and I think it’s a very religious little school.

It looks like the logo of the brand 'Weird Fish'?

I don't think it's anything to do with Weird Fish as the skeleton may be similar, but it's not the same.

I’ve never seen a fish skeleton used as a Christian symbol though, it’s always the simple outline of a fish with flesh as shown above.