Dish. Vietnamese, Lê dynasty, 15th–16th century. Stoneware with underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze enamels, My Xa kilns. Overall: 7 x 34.5 cm (2 3/4 x 13 9/16 in.). Anonymous gift. 2002.739 © 2012 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Dish decorated in the center with a crane with wings outstretched among cloud and a floral scroll with six chrysanthemum sunbursts on the wall.

Provenance: Collected by the donor in Vietnam in 1988 or slightly before

Catalogue raisonné: Philippe Truong, The Elephant and the Lotus: Vietnamese Ceramics in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2007 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cat. 171