Three-legged vessel with a low rim, retracting wall and slightly overhanging rim. The round-bottomed object has been smoothed and slurried on both sides. Its exterior is primed, painted and lightly polished. The paint and primer are partially eroded. There are small fractures on the rim. The pottery has a white-yellowish base colour, which is painted black and red on the outside of the vessel. There is a circumferential frieze on the wall. It consists of two trapezoidal pictorial fields that alternate with unpainted zones. All sectors are bordered by black bands. Each panel consists of three painted zones made up of trapezoids, triangles and rectangles. There are dots in many of the motifs. The three decorated areas are separated by a red band. The inside of the rim is painted red. Symbolic meaning: Holmes (1888: 183) and MacCurdy (1911) refer to discs, trapezoids, triangles and squares with dots in their centres as scale or alligator motifs. However, the same decorations also occur in other animal groups. According to Holmes 1888: alligator ware. According to Lehmann: Chiriquí style. Cultural significance: Stone (1958: 48) reports that objects of this type were associated with iron objects in a burial. She therefore assumes that these ceramics were still being produced in the Diquís region (Pacífico Sur) after the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. (Künne 2004)