Four-legged, round-bottomed bowl. The object has two opposing, hollow protomes, which represent the head and tail of an alligator. The base is decorated with a bead that has bean-shaped supports. The four conical, hollow legs have painted decoration. The object has been smoothed on both sides, slipped, primed and highly polished. The vessel wall, protomes and legs have applied, incised and engraved decoration. The heavily fragmented vessel has several flaws. The pottery has a red-brown base colour, which is painted white-yellowish. The outside of the bowl wall is decorated with two opposing, rectangular ornamental bands. They consist of several pictorial fields in which two horizontal wavy lines appear that are intertwined (guilloche motif). The incised decorations are separated from each other by a lizard-shaped head and tail protome. The creature depicted has a half-open mouth. A horizontal stripe decoration appears on the legs of the vessel. The grounded interior of the object remains undecorated. Symbolic meaning: the guilloche motif is often interpreted (Ferrero 1975: 405) as two snake bodies intertwined. However, it can also symbolise textiles or wickerwork. After Lothrop 1926: orange brown ware. According to Lehmann 1913: El Viejo style. Cultural significance: the type is known both from burials and from settlement contexts. Its ceramics show design influences from the Central Highlands and the Atlantic slope of Costa Rica. (Künne 2004)