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Fish Plate

Fish Plate

Madison Painter

This kind of dish was certainly used to hold funeral offerings and may have been used to serve fish with sauce placed in the central cavity. While many different species of fish were depicted, here are two perch and a torpedo fish (from whose presence the painters are named).
Artist
Madison Painter
(Greek)
Title
Fish Plate
Date
4th century B.C.E.
Medium
Earthenware with red-figure decoration
Dimensions
2 x 7 1/2 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Frank
Accession No.
1981.132
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
Italy

Related

ca. 1968, sold by Hesperia Art (Philadelphia, PA) to Arthur J. and Edith Fairchild Frank (Milwaukee, WI); 18 January 1971, deposited on long-term loan to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]; 1981, gifted to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]. [Last researched by Chazen staff 22 December 2021]

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Ancient Etruscan and Greek Vases in the Elvehjem Museum of Art." University of Wisconsin Regents. Madison, Wis., 2000. pp. 24, 68, no. 47; pl. 8

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