Beaten Longevity

1700–1860
Height: 4.63 cm
Mouths/lips: 0.86/1.06 cm
Stopper: glass; plastic collar

Provenance:
Max Chitters
Robert Kleiner (1993)

Published:
Kleiner 1995, no. 364
Treasury 7, no. 1612

Exhibited:
British Museum, London, June–October 1995
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, July–November 1997

 

Copper; with convex lip and slightly concave foot; with a repoussé design, identical on both main sides, of two confronting chi dragons above formalized rocky peaks and beneath a shou character in seal script and two formalized clouds; with a shoulder band of formalized lotus petals and a raised bead separating the shoulders from the neck.

Alexander Whittaker