Fish Plate

MS5696

Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery

From: Mediterranean

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number MS5696
Current Location Greece Gallery - On Display
Culture South Italian
Provenience Mediterranean
Manufacture Location South Italy
Period Hellenistic Period | Late Classical Greek Period
Date Made 399-300 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Ceramic
Technique Red Figure
Iconography Fish | Bream | Perch | Torpedo fish
Description

Campanian red-figure fish plate. On floor of plate: two large fish (bream or perch) and a torpedo fish. Around edge of overhanging rim is a laurel wreath. Low foot with short broad stem. Overhanging rim is nearly vertical in profile. Foot mended. Underside, foot, stem and central depression unglazed.

Height 0.06 cm
Outside Diameter 0.23 cm
Credit Line Gift of Nina C. Lea, 1921

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