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Dish with deer
Vietnamese
Le dynasty
15th–16th century
Object Place: Vietnam
Medium/Technique
Stoneware with underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome-enamel decoration, My Xa kilns
Dimensions
9 x 44 cm (3 9/16 x 17 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Charles Bain Hoyt Fund
Accession Number1985.334
CollectionsAsia
Catalogue Raisonné
Truong, Philippe, The Elephant and the Lotus: Vietnamese Ceramics in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2007 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cat. 169
ProvenancePurchased by the MFA from Ken Baars, Surrey, UK, in 1985. Reputed to come from a princely family of Atjeh, North Sumatra, who migrated to the Netherlands after the war (WWII?).