Small Apulian red-figure fish plate, close to the group from Karlsruhe 66/140. Taranto, 340 - 320 B.C. H 4.3cm, ø 17.4cm. Plate with overhanging, slightly convex rim. Three different sea bream swimming counterclockwise. Details in white paint. For the painter and the group see. I. McPhee - A. D. Trendall, Greek red-figured fish-plates, Antike Kunst. Supplement 14 (1987) pp. 127-130. Two marginal fragments broken and reattached, otherwise intact. Provenance: From the private collection of K. M., North Rhine-Westphalia; from the estate of the private collection of F. M., France, there since at least 2011; in Germany since August 28, 2023.

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