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Greek fish plate from Newark Museum

€1,740
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Object number
AR3126
Object: So-called fish plate

Material: Red clay with black slip

Date: 4th century B.C.
Athenian or Greek colony in Southern Italy

Description:    Plate with pedestal foot and broad rim. Central depression, surrounded by shallow groove.

Size: Diameter 225 mm, height 45 mm.

Historical note: Such fish plates were very popular in Ancient Greece. Most likely, this pottery type originated in 5th century Athens. It was however not until the 4th century BC until these plates became more common in the South Italian Greek colonies of Magna Graecia.

Condition: Almost perfectly preserved, minor wear, intense patina. Below the rim a stable crack, probably from firing. Newark Museum inventory number "X54.453" in red and sticker "15-8" or "8-91" on the bottom. On the front, remains of a very old sticker with print "…TT & Co. / New York." and hand writing "197 / 31". With card registering the return due-dates and description of the Newark Museum lending collection.

References: Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Nr. 1975.330
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Tours and Bourges, Musee des Beaux Arts er Musee du Berry, Pl. 24.4
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Prague, Universite Charles 2, Pl 69.1; 8;
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Bochum, Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität 2, 75-76, Beilage 11.5, Pl. 76.7

Provenance: Acquired 2020 from an US American auction house. Consigned by the US American Newark Museum of Art. The plate was included in the museum collection in 1954 as inventory number X54.453.

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