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FISH PLATE WITH RED FIGURES
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FISH PLATE WITH RED FIGURES
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
Voluntary lot
Description
FISH PLATE WITH RED FIGURES
Greek art, Magna Graecia, Apulia, third quarter of the 4th century BC.
Circular dish on a foot, decorated with a dogfish, a flatfish and a sea bream surrounding a central recess for the sauce (garum); a prawn and two shells in the field; a frieze of laurel leaves on the rim.
Diam.: 20.3 cm
Provenance: European private collection, acquired before 1990
Christie’s, London, 7 October 2010: lot 140 (ill.)
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA581)
Animal, Mougins Museum of Classical Art (MACM), Mougins, France, 25 February–30 April 2016
Nice through the Lens of History, Massena Museum, Nice, France, 24 June–15 October 2017
Bibliography: Christie’s, Antiquities, London, 7 October 2010, lot 140
J. Boardman, ‘Greek Art’ in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 59, fig. 7
M. Merrony, Mougins Museum of Classical Art. The Levett Family Collection, 2012, p. 35
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, pp. 57 and 93
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2016, p. 49, fig. 44 and p. 82
J.J. Aillagon et al., Nice à l’École de l’Histoire, 2017, p. 55
An Apulian red-figured fish plate,
Third quarter of the 4th century BC.
See original version (French)
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