Art Institute of Chicago
Fish Plate
Attributed to the Dotted Stripe PainterLinkedCulture matchlcp-03f6c29c126e
- Date
- 350-330 BCE
- Medium
- terracotta, red-figure
- Culture
- Campania
- Department
- Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 160174
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Decorated tableware enlivened festive meals. This red-figured plate was used, as its 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 Cornelius Adrian Comstock Vermeule
- Provenance
- Hesperia Art, Philadelphia, sold to Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, Boston, by 1968; on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from August 1968 - March 1997 [Padgett, Vermeule, et al., 1993, 167-168; and according to correspondence with the Museum of Fine Arts Boston dated August 25, 2023, copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.
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- Object type
- AAT300193015
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