Virgílio Jacinto is a traditional ceramist whose workshop is located in a small village, Nadadouro, between Caldas da Rainha and Foz do Arelho. All his life was dedicated to ceramics, having started working at 16/17 years in the workshop of Francisco Oliveira Mendes, by nickname the “Licas”, where he occupied the place of 1st furnace. When, later, the factory was bought by Dr. Mesquita de Oliveira the work started to be led by “Licas”. This factory, located in Alto do Nobre, takes the name of Kerangol. Here, Virgílio occupies the place of chief furnace, while making decorated dishes. Virgílio Jacinto is a man for all service: he makes the pieces in clay and then it is up to him to decorate them. It is then that lobsters, clams, mussels, crabs, a whole miscellany of marine life, essentially shellfish, begin to emerge, adorning green base dishes. Meanwhile Kerangol has closed. Virgílio Jacinto, becomes unemployed, but not inactive, because he creates, in his house, a workshop where he continues to make the dishes with seafood, but also with chickens, cocks, ducks, cabbages, cabbages, terrines and mugs – some malandrecas -, work that still continues to do today. Virgílio is a traditional Chaldean ceramic worker, a characteristic that is reflected both in the decoration of his pieces and in the methods he uses. Its pieces are made in filling (syrup) and clay, the Joule. Came to export dishes to Poland, U.S. , England and Spain. Currently only makes parts to order and only sells to the domestic market. It is certainly one of the few, who knows if one of the last ceramists who dedicates himself to the traditional Caldense ceramics.