Imperial family Ri Masako (Yi Bangja 1901-1989) Vintage brush marked teabowl #5063

Width: approx. 14.5cm (5 45⁄64in)

Height: approx. 6.5cm (2 9⁄16in)

Weight: 265g (gross 758g)

Ri Masako (Yi Bangja) (1901-1989)
She was consort of the crown prince of the former Empire of Korea and, during the Japanese era, was the first daughter of Prince Nashimoto Morimasa. Her Japanese name is Ri masako and Korean name is Yi Bangja.
In her later years, she was naturalized in Korea and established education for disabled children and a cloisonné research institute, while devoting effort to ceramic art on the side.
Due to those successes, the Korean government conferred upon her the "Order of the Peony" and, posthumously, the "Korean People's Order of the Rose of Sharon Prize, First Class."