'China-ware in the skies': overlapping identities in the ornamental use of plates in Uruguay. (June 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: SCHÁVELZON, DANIEL; GIRELLI, FRANCISCO
• Is Part Of: Post-medieval archaeology. Volume 49:Part 1(2015)
• Page Start: 57
• Page End: 71
• Publication Date: 2015-06
• Subjects: Civilization, Modern -- Europe -- Periodicals; Industrial archaeology -- Europe -- Periodicals; Europe -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; 940
• DOI: 10.1179/0079423615Z.00000000071
• Languages: German
• ISSNs: 0079-4236

Abstract

<abstract> <title> <x content-type="archive" xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>This is the study of a church where tableware manufactured in Great Britain was used to decorate the façade in the early 19th century. An argument is made that this one surviving case points to a larger regional tradition, now lost, whose greatest exponent was Montevideo Cathedral, Uruguay. The hypothesis presented here is that the use of British plates in religious façades shortly before the South American Wars of Independence was part of a search for identity in a region trying to break away from Spain, and in the process of becoming a small republic between the two larger countries of Argentina and Brazil.</p> </abstract>