Dish with deer
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Large dish with flat rim with a raised edge and unglazed foot ring decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels in green, red, and gold. The wall is adorned with six lotus flowers, waves and clouds. In the center a deer with a spotted coat flying over mountains among red and green clouds and seizing a peony.

Provenance

Purchased 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?).

Credit Line

Charles Bain Hoyt Fund

Dish with deer

  • Vietnamese, Le dynasty, 15th–16th century
Vietnam
Dimensions
9 x 44 cm (3 9/16 x 17 5/16 in.)
Medium or Technique
Stoneware with underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome-enamel decoration, My Xa kilns
Classification
Ceramics
Type
Vessel
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
Accession Number
1985.334
On view
South and Southeast Asia - 176

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