A RARE KOREAN WHITE GLAZE ZOOMORPHIC VASE CHOSON DYNASTY Modelled as a double gourd vase on the...

A RARE KOREAN WHITE GLAZE ZOOMORPHIC VASE

CHOSON DYNASTY

Modelled as a double gourd vase on the back of a turtle, the lower half of the vessel of octagonal form and with the eight trigrams drawn in underglaze brown, the eyes of the mythical beast and further details highlighted in colour, the base with a paper collection label for the De Vermes Collection, 21cm.

Cf. Le Musée Guimet, Paris, for another Korean vase modelled as a vessel on the back of a large turtle.