From Fragment to Form
TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
From Fragment to Form
May 5 until November 26 2023
More information to [email protected] or +351 213 213 240
Archaeology can be described as the making of history through objects and settings which have been slowly eroded by the passage of time. Only a small fraction of these survives and reaches the present. It’s a universe where even the tiniest evidence can shed light onto the societies of the past.
The fragments recovered at the headquarters of Banco de Portugal in the excavations of 2010-2011, although quite obliterated, are vital for archaeological research and the discovery of the 2000 years of history of this place.
Amidst more than 100 000 ceramic, fauna, glass, metal, and others fragments, 1140 belonged to earthenware pieces.
In the headquarters of the Banco de Portugal, the presence of earthenware is restricted to a short range of small fragments, due to the archaeological intervention and the dynamics of the site itself (waste refuse areas were not discovered). However, the remains prove more than five hundred years of utilisation of national and international earthenware, a practice that began even before the construction of the Ribeira Royal Palace.
In the set on display, there are many items of national origin, with greater emphasis on those from the 17th century and the first half of the 18th. But at the time, kitchen cupboards were not missing either 15th-century imports, though rarer, or 16th-century more luxurious pieces, from Italy (Montelupo or Liguria) and from Seville or Valencia, in Spain.
TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
From Fragment to Form
May 5 until November 26 2023
More information to [email protected] or +351 213 213 240
Archaeology can be described as the making of history through objects and settings which have been slowly eroded by the passage of time. Only a small fraction of these survives and reaches the present. It’s a universe where even the tiniest evidence can shed light onto the societies of the past.
The fragments recovered at the headquarters of Banco de Portugal in the excavations of 2010-2011, although quite obliterated, are vital for archaeological research and the discovery of the 2000 years of history of this place.
Amidst more than 100 000 ceramic, fauna, glass, metal, and others fragments, 1140 belonged to earthenware pieces.
In the headquarters of the Banco de Portugal, the presence of earthenware is restricted to a short range of small fragments, due to the archaeological intervention and the dynamics of the site itself (waste refuse areas were not discovered). However, the remains prove more than five hundred years of utilisation of national and international earthenware, a practice that began even before the construction of the Ribeira Royal Palace.
In the set on display, there are many items of national origin, with greater emphasis on those from the 17th century and the first half of the 18th. But at the time, kitchen cupboards were not missing either 15th-century imports, though rarer, or 16th-century more luxurious pieces, from Italy (Montelupo or Liguria) and from Seville or Valencia, in Spain.
Exhibition credits
Project management
Museu do Dinheiro – Banco de Portugal
Curator
Artur Rocha
Architecture and design
Manuel Ribeiro
Printing
Foco Criativo
Installation and production assistance
Departamento de Serviços de Apoio - Banco de Portugal
Opertec