Double tekomate: three-legged, bulbous jug with a convex neck and retracting rim. The short, hollow legs have two narrow vertical openings. The object has been smoothed on both sides, slurried and primed. Its exterior is painted in polychrome. The primer and paint are partially eroded. The pottery has a white-yellowish base colour, which was painted red-orange and black-brown on the outside of the vessel. A circumferential frieze consisting of vertical stripes appears below the rim. There is another frieze on the neck. It shows two opposing zoomorphic figures whose mouths are associated with a red disc. The head and body of the zoomorphic creature are depicted separately. Lothrop (1926) interprets the figure as a silhouette jaguar, type B. The vessel is decorated at the base of the neck with two red-orange bands running around the centre. Irregular traces of a white-yellowish primer are visible on the inside of the ceramic. There is a circumferential red-orange band on the rim. According to Lothrop 1926: Nicoya polychrome ware. Cultural significance: Tecomates are often associated with the maize complex. (Künne 2004)