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[YONSEI NEWS] Yeongbin Lee’s White & Blue Porcelain Grave Log, Ritual Utensils, and Stone Cases

연세대학교 홍보팀 / news@yonsei.ac.kr
2010-11-30

Yeongbin Lee’s white & blue porcelain grave relics, ritual utensils, and stone cases which the Yonsei University Museum had retained have been designated as the 311th Seoul Tangible Cultural Property. Yeongbin Lee’s white & blue porcelain grave relics, ritual utensils, and stone cases are artifacts which had been excavated in the yard near Luce Chapel in 1970 when Yeongbin Lee’s grave Soo Kyung Won was relocated to Koyang city, Kyeonggi province. Yeongbin Lee was one of the royal concubines of King Yeongjo of Chosun Dynasty. She was the mother of Crown Prince Sado, King Yeongjo’s first son, and grandmother of King Jeongjo. She passed away after two years her son had passed away. The grave log is a record of the deceased’s earthly life, family relationship, personality, and achievements that was stored in the tomb. The grave logs of Yeongbin Lee were composed of two pieces of white and blue porcelain. Engraved on the tomb inscription are words of her husband’s condolences and a short passage of her seven children. The ritual utensils found in her grave were 20 items; and the three stone cases were those in which the two grave logs and a box of ritual utensils were stored. These cultural assets have been evaluated to be historically and bibliographically significant sources of the late Chosun Dynasty.