Small, bulbous vessel with a broad, overhanging painted rim, convex wall and flattened base. There are two saddle-shaped strap handles on the shoulder. The body is decorated with two applied anthropomorphic faces. The object has been smoothed, slurried and primed on both sides. The primer and paint are heavily eroded. There are several fractures on the rim. The monochrome ceramic has a red-brown base colour. On the body are two opposing, anthropomorphic faces with half-open mouths. Their eyebrows were designed as snakes (?). Vertical yellow lines appear on the inner rim of the vessel, running across a red-brown ground colour. The yellow painting is atypical for the group. The body remains undecorated. According to Lothrop 1926: highland, stone cist ware. Cultural significance: pottery produced in the Central Highlands, on the Atlantic slope and in the Diquís region. The historical groups Curridabat ware (Hartman 1907), stone cist ware (La Cabaña Aplicado), red ware, type C (Lothrop 1926) and handled group (Holmes 1888; MacCurdy 1911) are closely related from a typological perspective. The ceramics were produced in periods VI (1550-1000d.C.) and V (1000-500d.C.). Monochrome, plastically decorated wares are known from both stone cist tombs and household contexts. Hartman (1901: 31-33) found objects of the La Cabaña Aplicado type associated with glass beads at Las Mercedes (Atlantic Slope). Stone (1977: 167) reports ceramics of the same group (stone cist ware) from Tuis (Central Highlands), which contained a Venetian glass bead. (Künne 2004)