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Fish Plate
Red-figure
Probably by the Heligoland Painter
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350-325 BCE
Decorated tableware enlivened festive meals. This red-figure plate was used, as its decoration suggests, for serving seafood, a staple of the Mediterranean diet. Tasty juices pooled in the central concavity, which may also have contained sauces.
Technique
Red-figure
Date
350-325 BCE
Culture
Campania
Painter
Probably by the Heligoland Painter
Medium
terracotta, red-figure
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
2002.546
Image Source
chicago_cc0
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)