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Eros, God of Love (00:49:32) 1090 views
Terracotta fish plate
Terracotta fish-plate
Marble fish plate
Terracotta plate
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This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 171
Two bream and a torpedo fish are featured around the center of this fish-plate, with two scallops, a mussel, murex, and shrimp illustrated in the background.
Said to be from Cumae
Collection Canessa, p. 43, No. 141.H. McClees, Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans, 1924, p. 31 (tailpiece).Daily Life (1933), p. 34, fig. p.36 (tailpiece).A.D. Trendall, greek Red-figured Fishplates (Basel 1987), p. 96, no. 39 (attrib. to the Heligoland Group)
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