ATTRIBUTED TO THE ALCÁCER DO SAL PAINTER, CIRCA 380 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURED FISH-PLATE
ATTRIBUTED TO THE ALCÁCER DO SAL PAINTER, CIRCA 380 B.C.
7 3⁄8 in. (18.7 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Private Collection, Sorengo, Switzerland, acquired by 1990.
with Charles Ede, London, 1995 (Pottery from Athens, vol XIV, no. 21).
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 1995.

Literature

I. McPhee and A.D. Trendall, Addenda to Greek Red-figured Fish-Plates, Basel, 1990, pp. 36-37, no. 66b, pl. 8,4.

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Lot Essay

This plate is decorated with four bream, three large and one small, with a small fish, perhaps a sardine, and a wave pattern on the rim. The painter takes his name from a fish-plate found at Alcácer do Sal, Portugal, and now in Lisbon (see no. 69 in I. McPhee and A.D. Trendall, Greek Red-figured Fish-plates).

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