Small, bean-shaped (shoe-shaped) vessel with a domed base. The object has a flowing neck base and a projecting rim. Applied appliqués appear on the body. The ceramic was smoothed and slurried on both sides. The outside is primed, painted and lightly polished. The primer and paint are partially eroded. The object has a white-yellowish base colour, which was painted red-orange and black-brown on the outside of the vessel. There are several circumferential red-orange bands and black-brown lines on the neck and body. The body is adorned with a bimorph face that has applied (eyebrows, eyes, nose) and painted (moustache) attributes. They seem to indicate a feline predator-like creature. According to Lothrop 1926: Zapatero ware. Cultural significance: the type is known both from burials and from settlement contexts. Its objects are characterised above all by their salmon-coloured ground. The group has been documented mainly in the valley of the Río Tempisque and occurs only rarely north of Bagaces (Costa Rica). Although the inventoried object has no salmon-coloured grounding, it can only be assigned to the Jicote Policromo group according to Bonilla et al. 1987. In the Gran Nicoya region, there was a long indigenous tradition of facial representations. Attached cat-like faces can already be found on the red, brushed wares of the Policromo Medio (1350-800d.C.). (Künne 2004)