Attributed to the Perrone-Phrixos Group Greek; Tarentum (now Taranto), Apulia, Italy
About this artwork
Decorated tableware enlivened festive meals. The red-figure plates were used, as their decoration suggests, for serving seafood, a staple of the Mediterranean diet. Tasty juices pooled in the central concavity, which may also have contained sauces.
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The Art Center at Hargate, The Classical Shape: Decorated Pottery of the Ancient World (Concord, NH: Saint Paul’s School, 1984). Exhib. Cat. no 31, ill.
Ian McPhee & A.D. Trendall, Greek Red-Figured Fish-Plates (Basel: Vereinigung d. Freunde Antiker Kunst, 1987), p. 126 (Apulian IVA, no. 85).
J. Padgett, E. Vermeule, et al., Vase-Painting in Italy (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1993), p. 129, no. 49 (ill.).
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, from 1970 until at least 1993.
The Art Center at Hargate, The Classical Shape: Decorated Pottery of the Ancient World, 1984.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, November 11, 2012 - November 5, 2019.
Compiled by Lorien Yonker January 2023
Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, Boston, by 1984 [Hargate, 1984]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.
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