A Breathtaking pure silver vase with a Shakudo belt about the handled neck decorated with archaic Taotai symbols on a rosewood base enclosed in a custom made, satin lined, Continental style wooden box. Impressed into the base is the character Bi in a plum blossom shape alongside the Jungin (pure silver) kokuin stamp. This is the mark of the Imperial Korean workshops which created the works for the House of Yi, the Royal family of Korea. The box is also an original box from the imperial workshops. The vase is 10.5 cm (4 inches) diameter, 27 cm (11 inches) tall and in perfect condition, weighing 704 grams.
The House of Yi was the royal family of Joseon and later the imperial family of the Korean Empire. After the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1910, in which the Empire of Japan annexed the Korean Peninsula, some members of the Jeonju Yi clan were incorporated into the Imperial Family of Japan. After Korea's liberation in 1945, President Syngman Rhee, of the House of Yi, suppressed the imperial family, in order to prevent the restoration of the monarchy
