This silver ewer was used in late-19th century court ceremonies such as celebrations and ancestral rites held in royal portrait shrines. Images of a three-legged crow in the sun and a rabbit pounding a mortar in the moon are each incised in the gilt surface on either side of the ewer’s belly. The bottom of the long spout features a gilded goblin’s face and the tip of the handle is cast in the form of a dragon’s head.

An image of the same silver ewer appears in the Royal Protocol on Reproduction of Portraits, labeled as a “silver bottle” (銀甁). In the details found in the Royal Protocols on royal banquets and feasts, such silver ewers are described as “gilt silver bottle with the sun and the moon” (銀鍍金日月甁), which was set on wine tables with cups.

An inscription “tenth room” (十室) at the bottom of this ewer suggests that it was originally used in the tenth room of Seonwon-jeon (璿源殿, Hall of Jade Wellspring), a portrait room dedicated to King Cheoljong.