Fish Plate by Ancient Greek
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Fish Plate

Ancient Greek · 350-325 BCE

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Francesco Fienga (1881-1937), Nocera Inferiore, Salerno, Italy. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, April 24, 1967, lot 160. Cornelius Comstock Vermeule III, Boston, on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1968 until at least 1993 [Padgett, Vermeule, et al., 1993, 167-168; and according to correspondence dated January 30,2023, copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1968 to at least 1993.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, November 11, 2012 - present.

Literature

Published references

  • Sotheby & Co., London, sale cat. (Sotheby's, London, April 24, 1967), lot 160.
  • I. McPhee & A.D. Trendall, Greek Red-figured Fish-plates (Basel: Vereinigung d. Freunde Antiker Kunst, 1987), p. 96, no. IID/40, pl. 31f.
  • J. Padgett, E. Vermeule, et al., Vase-Painting in Italy (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1993), pp. 167-168, no. 87 (ill.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report: 2002 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2002), n.p.

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