Art Institute of Chicago

Fish Plate

Attributed to the Perrone-Phrixos GroupLinkedCulture matchlcp-5ecfec72328a

Date: 340-320 BCE
Medium: terracotta, red-figure
Culture: Taranto
Department: Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 160173

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Decorated tableware enlivened festive meals. The red-figure plates were used, as their decoration suggests, for serving seafood, a staple of the Mediterranean diet. Tasty juices pooled in the central concavity, which may also have contained sauces.

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Credit line: Gift of Emily Dickinson Blake Vermeule
Provenance: Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, Boston, by 1984 [Hargate, 1984]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.

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Object type: AAT300193015

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