Red-Figure Fish Plate

AAT Object Form/FunctionFish Plates (ancient dishes)

Place CreatedItaly, Europe

CultureGreek, Apulian

PeriodLate Classical

Date340-320 BCE

MediumCeramic

Credit LineGift of Mr. William Knight Zewadski

Dimensions3 x 9 1/2 in. (7.6 x 24.1 cm)

Object number1986.015

Label TextThe dish with two two-banded bream and one wrasse in left profile; three limpets between. The central rosette surrounded by a wave-pattern. The rim with laurel-wreath.

Exhibition HistoryTampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, 1983-1986
Selected Acquisitions: Asia to America, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, May 8 - August 8, 1987
Across the Millennia: Antiques from the Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, Southern Bell Center, Atlanta, Georgia, January 6 - February 29, 1988
Recent Acquisitions, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, July 14 - September 15, 1988
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, May 11, 1993 - May 2004
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - September 15, 2014
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 29, 2014 - August 29, 2023
Published ReferencesSotheby's London, Antiquities (17th May 1983), 20, 33, lot 261, plate 9.
William K. Zewadski, South Italian Vases in Tampa Bay Collections (Tampa:1984), Campanian no. 3.
William K. Zewadski, Ancient Greek Vases from South Italy in Tampa Bay Collections (Tampa: 1985), Apulian no. 13.
Ian McPhee and AD Trendall, Greek Red-Figured Fish-Plates (Basel: Vereingung der Freunde antiker Kunst, 1987), 129, number IVA/132.

ProvenanceProbably with Gianfranco Becchina, Zurich, Switzerland. Ex coll. William Knight Zewadski, United States, purchased from Sotheby's London, 17 May 1983, lot 261. Deaccessioned by MCCM for repatriation to the Italian Republic, August 29, 2023.

Status

Not on view

Technical Notes