CIRCA 350-320 B.C.

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TWO CAMPANIAN RED-FIGURED FISH PLATES
CIRCA 350-320 B.C.
The larger, attributed to the Palmer-Scallop Painter, with two bream and a torpedo fish, wave pattern on the rim overhang; the smaller, attributed to the Robinson Painter, with bream, wrasse and torpedo fish, stripes around the rim overhang
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) and 5 ¼ in. (13.4 cm.) diam. respectively

Provenance

Item one: Private collection, UK, acquired from Folio Fine Art, London, 1971 (catalogue 78, no. 312).
Item two: Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1969, lot 89.
Private collection, UK, acquired from Folio Fine Art, London.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Item one: C. Ede, Collecting Antiquities, London, 1976, p. 25, fig. 60.
I. McPhee and A. D. Trendall, Greek Red-figured Fish-plates, Basel, 1987, p. 92, no. 163.
Item two: possibly I. McPhee and A. D. Trendall, Greek Red-figured Fish-plates, Basel, 1987, p. 85, no. 46.

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