Photographer: Andrea Blumtritt | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Small, two-part vessel stand. The object has two opposing, round mouths and a strongly concave wall. There are two massive, zoomorphic head protomes on the rim, which lie opposite each other. The object has been smoothed on both sides, slurried, primed, painted and lightly polished. The primer is partially eroded. There is a glued break on the base. The ceramic has a white-reddish base colour, which was painted red. The object has four high and four low oval openings. On the outside of the funnel-shaped upper part is a deep red band running all the way round. The inside of the object shows four vertical lines, a deep horizontal band and geometric motifs. The conical lower part of the vessel stand is decorated with a high, circumferential band with four vertical lines. The inside of the lower part of the object remains undecorated. According to Lothrop 1926: highland, red line ware. Cultural significance: only a few polychrome ceramics appear in the ceramic system of the Central Highlands of Costa Rica. Their position is largely replaced by groups with monochrome or bicolour decoration. (Künne 2004)
