Small, round-bottomed bowl with retracting rim. Painted and incised decorations appear on the outside of the ceramic. The object has been smoothed, slurried, primed, painted and polished on both sides. Its base colour and painting are partially eroded. The restored bowl has several breaks and flaws. The ceramic has a white-yellowish base colour, which was painted light blue and red-orange. The outside of the bowl is decorated with an incised line below the rim. On the wall there are two raised, circumferential bands. Three central motifs of a fire snake appear below them. The depictions were painted and carved before firing. They alternate with three circular discs that repeat the eyes of the snake motif. The inside of the object has a heavily eroded surface with marginal decorations. According to Lehmann 1913: "Nicarao style". According to Lothrop 1926: Nicoya polychrome ware, under slip incised ware. Cultural significance: the type exhibits a wide range of iconographic decoration. Some motifs have clear parallels to the post-classical imagery of the central Mexican highlands. The group is also characterised by the rare use of blue paint. The diagnostic criterion of the variant consists of incisions made before the priming. (Künne 2004)