High-walled bowl with a domed base. The outer wall of the object was decorated with sculptural applications and figurative carvings. There are remnants of white painting in the incisions. The ceramic has been smoothed on both sides, slurried, primed and highly polished. The object has a black-brown base colour. On the outside of the vessel wall are four upright, feline-like figures depicted in frontal or profile view. The opposing carvings have the same perspective. The figures that appear in frontal view have upturned faces and raise their front legs. The inside of the object remains undecorated. According to Lothrop 1926: chocolate ware and black ware. Cultural significance: the date of the group requires further documentation. Lothrop links the type with his black ware, which also includes objects from the Murillo Aplicado (1520-1350d.C.) and Castillo Esgrafiado (1550-1200d.C.) groups. He associates the vessels with the black pottery reported by Oviedo, Castañeda and López de Velasco from the island of Chira in the Gulf of Nicoya (Lothrop 1926: 40). Snarskis identifies the same ware with the Murillo Aplicado type (1981: 198, photo 113). Baudez (1972: 118f.) dates a similar object between 1525 and 1200d.C. (Künne 2004)