Bowl. Stoneware with green glaze, carved decoration. Overall: 6.5 x 16 cm (2 9/16 x 6 5/16 in.). Vietnam, Lê dynasty, 15th century. Accession number 2002.768. Anonymous gift. © 2012 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Bowl with indented edge with carved decoration on the interior of a tortoise in the well encircled by alternating fish and four Chinese characters that read "Tortoises and fish form a family", and four of the Eight Precious Things - a pair of rhinoceros horns, a flaming pearl, book scrolls, and a stone chime. The exterior displays vertical panels.

PROVENANCE: Collected by the donor in Vietnam in 1995 or slightly earlier

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. 71