Vases Red-figure Fish Plate
Fish Plate

Fish Plate

Red-figure Probably by the Heligoland Painter · 350-325 BCE
<p>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.</p>
Technique
Date
350-325 BCE
Culture
Campania
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)