I can't figure out what this means! Help would be wonderful!

[August]

I'm putting on an exhibition and some of the artifacts I'm presenting come from late-19th century China.

This opium bowl has an engraving that I can't make sense of. I've heard "dwell in memory" and "mark of funerary object", but nothing fits.

 

 

 

 

[Lu]

It looks a bit like 壽 'long life', but the image is rather blurry. Do you have a better picture?

[skylee]

I think it looks like X記(X being the unclear part).

[889]

I agree, but note that 記 is frequently the last character in the name of Chinese shops and small businesses. Thus this is almost certainly a shop or maker's mark. Look around and you might be able to identify it by finding the same but clearer mark on another piece.