id: 152699 accession number: 1985.50 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.50 updated: 2025-02-09 04:22:19.179000 Red-Figure Fish Plate: Octopi, Mullet, Bream, Shellfish, c. 340–330 BCE. Attributed to Asteas/Python Workshop (South Italian, Paestan, active c. 360–320 BCE). 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 340–330 BCE creation date earliest: -345 creation date latest: -325 current location: 102D Pre-Roman creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: South Italian, Paestan technique: ceramic department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - South Italy type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Asteas/Python Workshop (South Italian, Paestan, active c. 360–320 BCE) - artist Greek vase painters, active 4th century BCE in Paestum --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1985 opening date: 1986-02-12T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1985. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 20, 1986). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Poutrales family, Portugal (arrived Portugal from Germany and Austria late 19th Century) date: footnotes: citations: Thomas Howard-Sneyd, Ltd., London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1985 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1985- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive. page number: BAPD 1002938 url: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/467D723F-3C0F-41BF-AB35-35F04982FFFF Bates, Albert. “Octopodal Pictoriality: The Self-Reflexivity of the Octopus in Graeco-Roman Art.” Art History, Vol. 47, Iss. 1 (February 2024): pp. 155-158. page number: url: https://academic.oup.com/arthistory/article/47/1/154/7695958 Kozloff, A.P. 1986. "Two South Italian Vases: Fish Plate and Frog Bottle," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 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," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 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. Greek Red-Figured Fish-Plates (Antike Kunst Beiheft 14). Basel: Vereinigung der Freunde Antiker Kunst c/o Archäologisches Seminar der Universität, 1987. page number: p. 108 (Paestan IIIA/33a), pl. 38a.. url: Trendall, A. D. The Red-Figured Vases of Paestum. [London]: British School at Rome, 1987. page number: p. 236, no. 2/955. url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 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," Persephone 3 (1997). page number: p. 82 url: Neils, Jenifer, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: pp. 57-58, pl. 103 url: Hopper, Robin. Functional Pottery: Form and Aesthetic in Pots of Purpose. 2017. page number: p. 179 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.50/1985.50_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.50/1985.50_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.50/1985.50_full.tif