Red Figure Fish-Plate

APULIAN RED-FIGURE FISH-PLATE Shape and Ornament: Shallow plate with flaring rim, flaring foot set off by grooves. Central depression surrounded by two deep grooves, a reserved wave pattern, and a reserved band. On the reserved rim, bands of dilute glaze and black dots. Exterior rim and underside of foot glazed. SUBJECT: The main decoration is on the interior: bass, striped perch, squid and one small fish (coris?). Bodies in dilute glaze, with details in dark glaze. Accessory colors: White: for outline, fins, squid's tentacles, and two small crayfish (?), which are barely visible. About 350-325 B.C. Dated by A. D. Trendall. -- Wisseman, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Plate 52, 4 and 55, 4.

London F 267 (H.B. Walters, Catalogue of Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum [London 1896] vol. IV, pp. 120-121, fig. 22). London F 262 (A.D. Trendall. South Italian Vase Painting, p. 5, pl 16b). It has a central boss instead of a depression, with similar designs around it. I. McPhee and A.D. Trendall, Greek Red-figured Fish-Plates (14 Beiheft, Antike Kunst,1987) p. 101, cat. no. 11 E 29: bass, striped perch, squid and small fish (coris?)

Bohen, B. et al, From Alexander to Augustus. University of Illinois: Champaign, 1983. Wisseman, Sarah U. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Philipp von Zabern: Mainz, 1989. Page 41, Plate 52,4; 55,4.