Large, round-bottomed bowl with a convex wall and retracting rim. The object has been smoothed and slurried on both sides. Its matt exterior is primed and painted in polychrome. The red-orange colour was applied after the black-brown decoration. The primer and paint are partially eroded, scratched or blackened. The object has fractures. The pottery has a white-yellowish base colour, which was painted black-brown and red-orange on the outside of the vessel. On the wall there is a frieze around the lower edge, which shows geometric elements in different colours. Four large, semi-circular pictorial fields decorating the body are attached to the ornamental band. They consist of a red-orange semicircle surrounded by three concentric rings. The innermost ring shows diagonal bundles of lines and dotted triangles. The two outer rings are formed by a red-orange and a black-brown band. Symbolic meaning: according to Lothrop (1926), the highly stylised central motif is reminiscent of the open maw of a snake, which appears from a frontal perspective. Lehmann (1913) assigns the decoration to his "Chorotega style". Lothrop (1926) discusses the same decoration in the chapter Nicoya polychrome ware, plumed serpent, type H. Cultural significance: the diagnostic decorations of the variant also appear in the Jicote Policromo, variedad lazo group (1350-1000d.C.). They are also known from the Guasave (1400-700d.C.) and the Aztatlán complex (site Culiacán, 1530-900d.C.) of northwestern Mexico (states of Sinaloa and Nayarit) (Ekholm 1942; Kelly 1945; Stevenson-Day 1984: 310). (Künne 2004)