Fish plate
Date: ca. 340 BC
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
Published References
Sotheby's London, 8-9 December 1986, lot 300
Charles Ede, Ltd., "Greek Pottery from South Italy," XII (1987) no. 6
I. McPhee and A.D. Trendall, Greek Red-figured Fish Plates (Antike Kunst Beiheft 14, 1987) 106, no. IIIA/11
A.D. Trendall, Red-figured Vases of Paestum (British School at Rome, 1987) 232, no. 930
H.A. Shapiro, C.A. Picón, and G.D. Scott, III, eds., Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995) p. 241, no. 122
Label TextMore 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)