Three-footed bowl with retractable rim. The object has three solid, conical feet. It has been smoothed and slurried on both sides. The outside of the ceramic is primed, painted and lightly polished. There are several fractures on the rim and body. The pottery has a red base colour, which was painted black and white on the outside of the vessel. Two circumferential black lines appear below the rim and above the base. They are connected to each other by vertical bundles of lines. There is a concentric rhombus in the centre of each bundle of lines. All the black paintings are bordered by thin white lines. The interior of the object remains undecorated. After Lothrop 1926: Nicoya black line ware. According to Lehmann 1913: El Viejo style. Cultural significance: although the Tola Tricromo group is considered a diagnostic indicator of the Policromo Antiguo (800-500d.C.), Bonilla et al. (1987) date it to the period of zoned bicoloured pottery. The Costa Rican variant López has been documented above all in the Bahía de Culebra and in the valley of the Río Tempisque. It seems to have emerged from the Rosales Esgrafiado en zonas group (500d.C.-500a.C.). The Nicaraguan variant Tola has many similarities with the Chávez Blanco sobre Rojo group (800-500d.C.). (Künne 2004)