With incised rings outlining the painted border of scrolling vines in red and white; with a shallow central tondo, outlined in red, broad carinated rim and low foot.

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'Teano ware' is a type of ceramic produced from the late 4th century to the early 3rd century BC. Its modern name derives from Teanum Sidicinum, in northern Campania, the main centre of production. White and red pigment was used for the painted decoration on the black surface. For a dish with similar decoration from Teano and now in the Met see, acc. no. 09.221.46g.

Fish plates with their central recessed tondo and down turned rim are a distinctive shape and were popular in Magna Graecia (southern Italy) from the 4th century BC.

A plate such as this one may have been used as a communal serving platter, perhaps with a dipping sauce in the central depression. For other black glazed examples in Dublin, see Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: University College Dublin and University College Cork, 61, fig. 27, pl. 45, 45.5-6. Also cf. B.A. Sparkes, L. Talcott, The Athenian Agora. Black and Plain Pottery, Princeton, 1970, no. 1075.

£ 3,500.00