Large, ovaloid jug with a hollow base and flowing neck. The body is decorated with a deep, circumferential bead. The base has small, vertical openings. Both sides of the vessel have been smoothened and slipped. Its exterior is primed and painted. The painting technique of the zoomorphic pictorial elements simulates negative decoration. The thin primer and the painting are almost completely eroded. The object has small fractures and flaws around the rim. The ceramic has been primed twice. It has a white-yellowish covering colour, which was applied on a red background. The outside of the object was painted black-brown and red-orange. The neck of the vessel had several circumferential friezes that were almost completely eroded. At the base of the neck was a sequence of images depicting a cat-like creature on a black-brown background. Lothrop (1926) classifies the depiction as a "silhouette jaguar, type B". All other decorations are completely eroded. Lehmann (1913) associates the keamik with his "Nicarao style." According to Lothrop 1926: Nicoya polychrome ware. Cultural significance: according to Snarskis (1983: 65) and Lange (2003, pers. comm.), the Pataky group displaced the Papagayo pottery in the Gran Nicoya region between 1250 and 1150d.C.. Their decoration shows a strong Mesoamerican influence. According to Lothrop (1926), the diagnostic motifs consist of the "silhouette jaguar, type B" and the "plumed serpent, type C". The same motifs are also known from folding books made in the Postclassic Mixteca-Puebla style (1520-1200d.C.). The group appears mainly in burials. (Künne 2004)