Small, two-part vessel consisting of a horizontal, bean-shaped (shoe-shaped) body with a short, straight neck. On the narrow side of the body there are appliqués depicting a face. Both sides of the object have been smoothened and sanded. Its exterior is primed, painted and lightly polished. The primer and paint are almost completely eroded. The pottery has several cracks and one flake. The pottery has a white-yellowish base colour, which is painted red-orange and black-brown on the outside of the vessel. There was probably a red-orange band around the neck. The body is decorated with a face that has applied (eyebrows, eyes, nose) and painted (moustache) attributes. They seem to refer to a feline predator. Traces of a white-yellowish primer appear on the inside of the neck of the vessel. According to Lothrop 1926: Zapatero ware. Cultural significance: the type is known both from burials and from settlement contexts. Its objects are characterised above all by their salmon-coloured base. The group has been documented mainly in the valley of the Río Tempisque and occurs only rarely north of Bageces (Costa Rica). Although the inventoried object has no salmon-coloured grounding, it can only be assigned to the Jicote Policromo type according to Bonilla et al. 1987. In the Gran Nicoya region, there was a long indigenous tradition of facial representations. Attached cat-like faces can already be found on the red, brushed wares of the Policromo Medio (1350-800d.C.). (Künne 2004)