Photo Notes 玉“益寿”谷纹璧
Jade "longevity"-patterned Bi, Han, high 13.2cm, width 10.5cm, thickness 0.5cm. Qing collection.
Bi green white, with yellowish spots. Bi round, flat body, inside and outside edge of the bulge, the same decoration on both sides are decorated with granular-patterned. Bi on the edge of the outside decorated with engraved "longevity" word, words were carved on both sides of a Chi and a dragon. Chi is like looking back, the body has ring point, Longhorn. Long long as wide mouth lip, like the crocodile evolved, its body has scales, body limbs and back like animals.
Qing archives on the "longevity" bi palace records, called "arch-bi."