Fish plate (antique)
Fish plates are a special form of antique plates painted in the red-figure style . The motifs are always fish or other seafood such as snails, shrimps or mussels, which are usually reproduced in a very realistic form. Mythical animals do occur, but are rather rare. Today about 1000 traditional fish plates are known.
Apart from the Lukan fish plates, they were produced in all major workshops in southern Italy and also in Sicily and in Attic vase production. The difference between Attic and southern Italian plates is that in Attic vase painting the fish are depicted with the bellies facing the edge, in southern Italian painting with the bellies inward. In the center there is usually a recess that was normally only decorated in Apulian painting.
The Phrixos painter from the manufacturing workshop of the Darius painter is particularly imaginative when it comes to depictions, for example he depicts electric rays , squid , monkfish and horn snails . In the Campanian workshop of the Kassandra painter and his successors there are several painters who are not had produced few fish plates. Apparently there was a strong Sicilian influence on the way of production. Fish plates are from the Bastis painter , the Grassi painter and his group , among others . The Adeleide-S. Prico painters are even ascribed around 50 plates, but it is possible that they only belong to different painters from the workshop of the Ixion painter , who made the Adeleide-S. Prico painter employed.
Another group of the Campanian fish plates is closely related to those of the Kassandra Painter. They show electric rays drawn with white and black dots. After that, the artist group is named ( Zitterray group , also called the torpedo group after its most important representative). These plates were probably made in the workshop of the laghetto painter and the caivano painter . The most important artist is the torpedo painter . Another important workshop in Campania was that of the CA painter in Cumae . Almost 200 fish plates are attributed to her. They were painted by the Robinson painter and his circle - such as the three-strip painter . A large part of these plates are decorated with two bream (especially marble and two-banded bream ) and an electric ray. Important painters of fish plates in Paestan vase painting were the painter of Naples 2585 and the painter of Naples 1778 .
In Attic painting, fish plates are designed far less often and less colorfully and imaginatively. It can be assumed that these plates were also used for such simple meals as fish, which one simply dipped in a fish sauce and ate.
literature
- Arthur Dale Trendall , Ian McPhee : Greek red-figured fish-plates (= Ancient Art , Supplement 14, ISSN 0066-4782 ). Association of Friends of Ancient Art, Basel 1987.
- Norbert Kunisch : Greek fish plates. Nature and image. Mann, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-7861-1562-1 .
- Arthur Dale Trendall, Ian McPhee: Addenda to "Greek red-figured fish-plates" . In: Ancient Art. Volume 33, 1990, pp. 31-51.
- Arthur Dale Trendall: red-figure vases from southern Italy and Sicily. A handbook (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 47). von Zabern, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-8053-1111-7 .
- Christian Zindel: Marine life and the hereafter. The fish plates of the Florence Gottet collection (= From collectors and donors 3). Akanthus, Kilchberg / Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-905083-13-2 .
- Rolf Hurschmann : Fish plate. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , column 530 f.
