Tripartite vessel consisting of a three-footed, cat-like figure carrying a deep bowl on its back. The hollow object has three arched feet and an anthropomorphic head. The raised tail of the sculpture also served as a handle. It is decorated with a massive, avimorphic protome. There are nine narrow openings on the body of the depicted creature. The pottery has several rattle beads. The object was smoothed, slurried, primed, painted and polished on both sides. The primer and paint are partially eroded. The ceramic has a white-reddish base colour, which was painted red, orange and black-brown on the outside of the object. On the body of the sculptured figure and on the bowl wall are pictorial fields with geometric motifs. They show black-brown dots, oval and broad lines. The pictorial elements appear to imitate the fur pattern of a feline predator. There are also three black-brown bands running around the bowl wall. The head of the depicted creature has anthropomorphic attributes. The figure wears an eye mask and feather jewellery. The inside of the bowl has been primed in red. There is a band around the rim. According to Lothrop 1926: highland polychrome ware. Cultural significance: the type was produced exclusively in the south of the Gran Nicoya region and traded to the Central Highlands and the Atlantic region of Costa Rica. The pottery is known both from burials and from settlement contexts. It was often associated with the Altiplano Policromo group (1350-800d.C.). (Künne 2004)