Small, spherical jug with a short neck and a bulging, thickened rim. The vessel has been smoothed and slipped on both sides. Its exterior is primed, painted and highly polished. The black paint is heavily eroded. There are several small fractures on the neck. The outside of the pottery was painted red-orange, black and white. The lower half of the vessel is painted red-orange. The only decoration consists of a black band running around the centre (positive technique). The upper half of the vessel was painted white (positive technique). It has two opposing arched fields, which are bordered by two red-orange stripes. They contain black-bordered triangles and black parallel lines. They lie under the white covering colour and shine through it (negative technique). The white dots on some of the black lines are part of the positive painting. The inside of the neck was painted red-orange. According to Holmes 1888: lost colour groupe. Cultural significance: Negative colouring is considered by many scholars to be a South American technique. It appears in Costa Rica from the end of Period IV (500d.C.-1000a.C.) and reaches its peak in Period V (1000-500d.C.) (Snarskis 1983: 111). (Künne 2004)