ClassificationsGreek and Roman Art
Gilded Black-Glaze Plate
AAT Object Form/Functionplates (general, dishes)
AAT Object Techniquegilding (technique)
CultureGreek, Attic
PeriodHellenistic
Dateca. 325-300 BCE
MediumCeramic, gilding
Credit LineGift of Brian T. Aitken
Dimensions6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm)
Object number2003.022.001
Label TextThe plate with thickened rim; the tondo decorated before gilding with a design of rouletting and impressed palmettes forming a circle containing a six-pronged star.The plate belongs to a small class of Attic black-glazed pottery produced in the late fourth and early third centuries B.C. that has been given a coating of gold or silver leaf in imitation of precious metal vessels. Excavated examples were found in Macedonia, suggesting that the surface treatment was applied after export for an elite Macedonian market.
Exhibition HistoryMCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, October 29, 2019 - August 2020
MCCM Permanent Collection Gallery, October 2, 2023 - Present
Published ReferencesZoe Kotitsa, "Metal-Coated Pottery in Macedonia in Late Classical and Hellenistic Period," in Topics on Hellenistic Pottery in Ancient Macedonia, 109-25, ed. Stella Drougou, et al (Athens: Archaeological Receipts Fund, 2012), 108, note 4.
Dyfri Williams, "Gilded Pottery and Golden Jewellery," in The Macedonians in Athens, 322-229, ed. Olga Palagia and Stephen V. Tracy (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2016), 227, figure 1.
ProvenanceWith Brian T. Aitken (1952-2009) [Acanthus Gallery], New York, New York.
Status
On viewCollections
- Greek and Roman Art
ca. 325-300 BCE
ca. 300-290 BCE
ca. 325-300 BCE
ca. 300-290 BCE
ca. 25-140 CE
early 1st Century CE
3rd Century BCE
4th Century BCE
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1776
3rd Century BCE
305-30 BCE
