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Fish Plate

Probably by the Heligoland PainterLinkedCulture matchlcp-d81b51991a36

Date: 350-325 BCE
Medium: terracotta, red-figure
Culture: Campania
Department: Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 160175

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Decorated tableware enlivened festive meals. This red-figure 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 Yun Soo Lim Vermeule
Provenance: Francesco Fienga (1881-1937), Nocera Inferiore, Salerno, Italy. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, April 24, 1967, lot 160. Cornelius Comstock Vermeule III, Boston, on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1968 until at least 1993 [Padgett, Vermeule, et al., 1993, 167-168; and according to correspondence dated January 30,2023, copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.

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Object type: AAT300193015

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