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MM 1994:004 :: fish plate

Object description: Broad, overhanging rim; horizontal floor with circular depression in the middle; groove around the central depression; short stem; grooved ring base. Yellowish brown clay; black glaze; added white, dark brown, black and yellow paint. On floor a squid, two bream, a small flatfish, a torpedo and a scallop; the fish are outlined in brown; white and black paint is used for eyes, fins and tails; black tongues in the depression and a central yellow dot; on floor a reserved band close to the edge; reserved laurel branch on rim; black stem and base; underside reserved.

Data elements
References (1)

Inventory number

MM 1994:004

Serie nummer

1666

Object

fish plate

Country - Origin

Italy : Europe

Material

Earthenware; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik

Exhibitions

“The Cutler Collection of Ancient Greek Ceramics”, The M. H. DeYoung Memorial Art Museum, San Francisco, October 13, 1984 - January 6, 1985.

Jönköpings läns museum, 1998.

Acquisition

Gift from The Engquist Foundation (C. Sandels). Purchased at an auction in New York, June 6, 1994 (Sotheby, n°97).

Description

Broad, overhanging rim; horizontal floor with circular depression in the middle; groove around the central depression; short stem; grooved ring base. Yellowish brown clay; black glaze; added white, dark brown, black and yellow paint. On floor a squid, two bream, a small flatfish, a torpedo and a scallop; the fish are outlined in brown; white and black paint is used for eyes, fins and tails; black tongues in the depression and a central yellow dot; on floor a reserved band close to the edge; reserved laurel branch on rim; black stem and base; underside reserved.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

4th century BC

Period

Late Classical

Exhibition - Current

Study Gallery

Description: Upstairs, in interaction with the Baghdad Cafe, opened in February 2009, the upper gallery. A rich variety of objects retrieved from the museum's storerooms, many of them shown for the first time. A series of booths filled to the brim with beautiful vases functions as a traditional study collection of ancient ceramics. Other booths highlights the thematic elements of the ancient world: the subject of everyday and festive, and images of gods, humans and animals. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2009-07-13, google translate).
Time - Start: 2009-022009-02

Exhibition, Part of - Current

Study Gallery - Showcase 14:04.

Comments

Previously part of The Cutler Collection, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Äldre bilder A.Stalteri Marcus. M. Sjöblom.

Keyword

ceramics

NegNo

MM 1994;004(1).jpg

Cf Publications

Cuttlefish Painter, Biningen Group, Workshop of the Darius Painter.

Publications

I. McPhee & A. D. Trendall, Greek red-figured fish-plates (Antike Kunst Beiheft 14), Basel 1987, 122 n°44. E. Rystedt, ‘Fisk från Syditalien’, Statens historiska museers årskrönika 1993, 41.

Loan out - Previously