Photographer: Andrea Blumtritt | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Small, light bowl with a flattened base. The object has been smoothed, sanded and primed on both sides. Its exterior is painted and highly polished. The primer and paint are partially eroded. The ceramic has a white-yellowish base colour, which was painted black and red. The outside of the object is decorated with a circumferential frieze on the lower edge, which consists of stepped elements. There is another surrounding frieze on the wall. It shows a stylised, cat-like creature that appears in two opposing pictorial fields. The snake-like creature has a dotted body and a red mouth. The panels are separated by black fields in which there are circular indentations. Three bimorph profile heads appear at the bottom. The inside has remnants of a red primer. After Lothrop 1926: silhouette-jaguar, types A and B. Label: Nicoya 6, 1883 Cultural significance: The Galo and Carrillo Policromo groups (800-500d.C.) represent the first truly polychrome ceramics produced in the Gran Nicoya region. Their design (shape, colouring, individual motifs) is strongly reminiscent of the Ulua Policromo group (950-550d.C.). (Künne 2004)
