Small, spherical jug with a short, conical neck. There are several applied decorations on the body. The object has been smoothed and polished on both sides. Its exterior is primed, painted and lightly polished. The primer and paint are partially eroded. The pottery has a white-brownish base colour, which is painted red and black-brown on the outside of the vessel. A black-brown band runs along the rounded lip. There is a red band around the rim. The body is decorated with a bimorph face, which has attached (ears, nose) and painted (eyes, mouth, beard) attributes. On the opposite side of the object, the facial field merges into a vertical frieze showing a stylised, zoomorphic depiction. It possibly symbolises the body of the sculpturally depicted being. The interior of the object remains undecorated. 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 base. The group was mainly documented in the valley of the Río Tempisque and only rarely occurs north of Bageces (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)