The golden reflections pottery in the historic town of San Vicente, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract

This article presents the exceptional finding of a type of ceramic that is very poorly represented in our country. It is a ceramics fragment found on the surface of the SV1 locus, located in the Old Town of San Vicente, Department of San Vicente, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic. Its technology dates back at least to the fifteenth century although, according to historical analysis, it’s macroscopic and archaeometric characterization, it is very likely that this fragment was produced in Spain during the s. XVIII, epoch in which the historic town of San Vicente is defined as such. The latter is deduced from the historical documentation of the ancient town of San Vicente and its close economic link with the city of Buenos Aires, access road for all types of goods from Europe. The analysis of this fragment allows us to suppose that the original piece to which it belonged could be a ceramic piece of holy water or a religious plate since most of the pieces made with this technology for that time would have been of religious-ornamental use, both in the entrances or oratories of domestic sites characteristic of the time, as in the old churches, such as the one located in the historical cemetery of San Vicente.