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Fish plate
Greek, South Italian
Late Classical to Early Hellenistic Period
about 340–320 B.C.
Place of Manufacture: Italy, Apulia
Medium/Technique
Ceramic, Red Figure
Dimensions
Overall: 5 x 19.8 cm (1 15/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift in memory of Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule
Accession Number2001.178
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsVessels
Catalogue Raisonné
Vase-Painting in Italy (MFA), no. 051.
DescriptionInterior: two striped fish with spiny back fins and an octopus around central depression. Details in added yellowish-white. Standing wave pattern decorates the overhang. Glaze on most of underside, rim of foot and inside foot. Broken and repaired.
ProvenanceBy 1970, probably sold by Hesperia Art, Philadelphia, to Cornelius C. Vermeule III (b. 1925 - d. 2008) and Emily Townsend Vermeule (b. 1928 - d. 2001), Cambridge, MA [see note]; 2001, gift of Cornelius C. Vermeule to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 21, 2001)
NOTE: First lent to the MFA November 30, 1970 (loan no. 282.1970).
NOTE: First lent to the MFA November 30, 1970 (loan no. 282.1970).