Fish plate
Artist:
Workshop of Asteas and Python
Culture: South Italian
Date: ca. 340 BC
Medium: Terracotta, red-figure technique
Dimensions:
height: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)
diameter: 6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 87.17
Provenance: with Galerie Hydra, Geneva; Sotheby's, London, Dec. 8-9, 1986, lot 300; sold by Charles Ede, Ltd., London, to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1987
Label Text
More than 1,000 South Italian and Sicilian fishplates survive. Like this plate, which shows three fish (a striped perch, a wrasse, and a bass), they are decorated with a variety of Mediterranean fish and seafood.
(Jessica Powers 2008)
(Jessica Powers 2008)
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