AN ATTIC BLACK-GLAZED FISH-PLATE
AN ATTIC BLACK-GLAZED FISH-PLATE

GALLATIN TYPE III, CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN ATTIC BLACK-GLAZED FISH-PLATE
GALLATIN TYPE III, CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
With gently sloping floor and overhanging rim, the central depression reserved, the reserved rim with six concentric bands and a central band of dotted decoration, another reserved band below, the underside reserved with a concentric band
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diam.
Provenance
with J.-Ph. Mariaud de Serres, Paris, acquired prior to 2000.
Collection Jean-Philippe Mariaud de Serres; Christie's, Paris, 16-17 February 2011, lot 283.
with Charles Ede Ltd, London.
Prof. H.-H. Heissmeyer collection, Schwäbisch Hall, acquired from the above in 2013 (inv. no. 56).
Literature
Vases, 2015, p. 19, no. 7.

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Lot Essay

For similar cf. I. McPhee and A. D. Trendall, Greek Red-figured Fish-plates, Basel, 1987, p. 25, no. 8, pl. 1. Such plates were the forerunners of Attic red-figured fish-plates.

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