fountain...,

on behalf of the legend of het Vrouwtje van Stavoren. The rich, prodigious merchant's widow threw a ring in the Zuiderzee and said that the chance that she would fall into begging was just as great as she would ever see the ring again. One day one of her servants came to her with a fish caught with her ring in the mouth. The Vrouwtje ended in great poverty.

every Frisian city got a fountain artwork.

the Fish for Stavoren

made by an american....Mark Dion for the project of Leeuwarden-Fryslan 2018...

kids may walk in it and look for the ring in the inside...

STAVOREN The sea gives, the sea takes. Stavoren, once a rich Hanseatic city, can talk about it. Floods, maritime trade wars, a port that was silted up: the city gradually declined to poverty. But each time she focused on bringing new prosperity to seafaring and fishing....(this is on the plaquette in front of it)