Vases Red-figure Fish Plate
Fish Plate

Fish Plate

Red-figure the Perrone-Phrixos Group · 340-320 BCE
<p>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.</p>
Technique
Date
340-320 BCE
Culture
Taranto
Attribution
Attributed
Medium
terracotta, red-figure
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
2002.544
Image Source
chicago_cc0
Images courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0)