Art Institute of Chicago
Fish Plate
Probably by the Heligoland Painter
- Date
- 350-325 BCE
- Medium
- terracotta, red-figure
- Culture
- Campania
- Department
- Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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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- Object type
- AAT300193015
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