id:			152699
accession number:	1985.50
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.50
updated:		2023-12-01 20:35:46.503000

Red-Figure Fish Plate: Octopi, Mullet, Bream, Shellfish, c. 340–330 BC. Attributed to Asteas/Python Workshop (South Italian, Paestan, active c. 360–320 BC). Ceramic; diameter: 38.3 cm (15 1/16 in.); overall: 7.9 cm (3 1/8 in.); diameter of foot: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1985.50

title:				Red-Figure Fish Plate: Octopi, Mullet, Bream, Shellfish
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creation date:			c. 340–330 BC
creation date earliest:		-345
creation date latest:		-325
current location:		102D Pre-Roman
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	South Italian, Paestan
technique:	ceramic
department:	Greek and Roman Art
collection:	GR - South Italy
type:		Ceramic
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CREATORS

* Asteas/Python Workshop (South Italian, Paestan, active c. 360–320 BC)  - artist
Greek vase painters, active 4th century BCE in Paestum
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measurements: Diameter: 38.3 cm (15 1/16 in.); Overall: 7.9 cm (3 1/8 in.); Diameter of foot: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1985
	opening date:   1986-02-12T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1985</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 20, 1986).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Poutrales family, Portugal (arrived Portugal from Germany and Austria late 19th Century)
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	Thomas Howard-Sneyd, Ltd., London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1985
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1985-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Beazley Archive. n.d. <em>Beazley Archive Pottery Database</em>. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
	page number: 	BAPD 1002938
	url:		http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/467D723F-3C0F-41BF-AB35-35F04982FFFF

	Kozloff, A.P. 1986. "Two South Italian Vases: Fish Plate and Frog Bottle," <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 73(10).
	page number: 	pp. 406-414.
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159967

	Turner, E.H. 1986. "The Year in Review for 1985," <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 73(2).
	page number: 	pp. 26-71 (ill. on p. 37, no. 8, listed on p. 62, no. 8).
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159930

	McPhee, Ian, and A. D. Trendall. <em>Greek Red-Figured Fish-Plates (Antike Kunst Beiheft 14)</em>. Basel: Vereinigung der Freunde Antiker Kunst c/o Archäologisches Seminar der Universität, 1987.
	page number: 	p. 108 (Paestan IIIA/33a), pl. 38a..
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	Trendall, A. D. <em>The Red-Figured Vases of Paestum</em>. [London]: British School at Rome, 1987.
	page number: 	p. 236, no. 2/955.
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 10
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n25

	Harrington, J. "Some References to the Octopus in Early Greek Poetry," <em>Persephone</em> 3 (1997).
	page number: 	p. 82
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	Neils, Jenifer, and Gisela Walberg. <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
	page number: 	pp. 57-58, pl. 103
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	Hopper, Robin. <em>Functional Pottery: Form and Aesthetic in Pots of Purpose. </em>2017.
	page number: 	p. 179
	url:		

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