Three-legged, flat-bottomed bowl with a flaring rim and rounded lip. The hollow, anthropo-zoomorphic legs have a round opening and rattle balls. The object has been smoothed on both sides, slurried, primed, painted and polished. The walls and base are partially blackened. The base has several cracks. The ceramic has a white-yellowish base colour, which is painted red, orange and black-brown. The outside of the bowl wall is decorated with vertical stripes. There is a surrounding frieze on the inside. It shows zoomorphic motifs, which Lothrop (1926) interprets as plumed serpent, type C. In the base of the vessel is a depiction blackened beyond recognition. The legs of the object are formed by three anthropo-zoomorphic heads opening their mouths and wearing ear jewellery. According to Bransford (1881), the pottery belongs to the Sta. Helena ware. Lothrop (1926) discusses the same group under his Nicoya polychrome ware. Cultural significance: the objects of the Papagayo Policromo group represent the beginning of polychrome painting on a white-yellowish ground in the Gran Nicoya region. The tradition lasted until the Policromo Tardío (1350-1520d.C.). Its decoration shows a strong Mesoamerican influence. This manifests itself in the replacement of lizard and bat themes with depictions of cats of prey and snakes. This variant is mainly known from burials. Their ceramics served as national trade goods. (Künne 2004)