Fish Plate

Probably by the Heligoland Painter Greek; Campania, Italy →

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Date

350-325 BCE

Medium

terracotta, red-figure

Dimensions

4.9 × 24.6 × 24.6 cm (1 15/16 × 9 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Gift of Yun Soo Lim Vermeule

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.

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