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Paestan Red-figure Fish Plate
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Low stem. Broad foot with ring base and central concavity. Short, thick stem continues to a broad, shallow bowl. Central depression embellished with a raised ring. Wide, curved rim, downturned to vertical.
Yellowish-buff fabric. Underside of vessel is un- or self-slipped. Central depression of bowl is surrounded by a worn black-figure wave pattern.
Three red-figure marine creatures decorate floor of plate: a squid, octopus, and bream (see Trendall and McPhee 1987, 111), with a small spiral shell between the octopus and squid, and another shell (clam or scallop?) between the squid and bream. Squid and octopus with short tentacles. Bream with a characteristic line and dot pattern. Details added in white on the sea creatures and on their black-slipped background have largely faded, worn away, or deteriorated. Broad-leafed laurel on rim.
Vessel is intact and in good condition.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin 1925. Purchased in Naples in 1894.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Joseph C. Hoppin
Title: Paestan Red-figure Fish Plate
Description:
Low stem.
Broad foot with ring base and central concavity.
Short, thick stem continues to a broad, shallow bowl.
Central depression embellished with a raised ring.
Wide, curved rim, downturned to vertical.
Yellowish-buff fabric.
Underside of vessel is un- or self-slipped.
Central depression of bowl is surrounded by a worn black-figure wave pattern.
Three red-figure marine creatures decorate floor of plate: a squid, octopus, and bream (see Trendall and McPhee 1987, 111), with a small spiral shell between the octopus and squid, and another shell (clam or scallop?) between the squid and bream.
Squid and octopus with short tentacles.
Bream with a characteristic line and dot pattern.
Details added in white on the sea creatures and on their black-slipped background have largely faded, worn away, or deteriorated.
Broad-leafed laurel on rim.
Vessel is intact and in good condition.
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