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Plate (Attic geometric black-figure ware)

GREECE, Attica
Plate (Attic geometric black-figure ware)
 775 BCE-725 BCE

Medium
earthenware

Measurements
5.2 × 26.9 × 22.6 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1981
© Public Domain

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Gallery location
18th Century Decorative Arts - Great Hall Costume Corridor
Level 2, NGV International

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Attica, Greece

Accession Number
D135-1981

Department
Antiquities

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited

Physical description
Shallow plate with ribbon handles. Buff clay decorated with red-brown paint. The interior is red/brown except for a broad reserved band. On the exterior base is an eight point petalled star with dot rosettes between petals. There is a vertical leaf-shape pattern band around the exterior body, a brown stripe along the edge of the handles and brown strokes on the rim.

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