This is the best image I have of a shield from Vietnamese artwork. It's from the book, TRANH CO VIET NAM (ANCIENT AND TRADITIONAL PAINTINGS OF VIETNAM), pages 68-69. I expanded the appropriate detail as best I can, but the image quality isn't the greatest. The caption reads, "Triumphal return of the military mandarin -- At the end of the 18th century (Doc Loi - Quynh - Nghe An)" The parenthetical information is, I believe, the people, city, and province of the artist.
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