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The present brushpot is signed by Ying Lian (1707-1783) and Cheng Jingyi (1712-1780), both of whom were high officials of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Ying Lian, zi Jiliu, hao Mengtang, native of Liaodong (today's Liaoyang), Liaoning province, passed the imperial examination and became a juren in the 10th year of Yongzheng (1733). During his political life, he was appointed to several important positions, including the Secretary of Ministry of Justice and Viceroy of Zhili. Cheng Jingyi, zi Pinsan, a native of Wujin (Changzhou), Jiangsu province, passed the imperial examination and received the jinshi title in the 4th year of Qianlong (1739). He served as the Secretary of Ministry of Works. The biographies of Ying Liang and Cheng Jingyi are recorded in Qingshigao [Draft History of Qing], juan 320.

The inscriptions on the present brushpot suggest that the poems were written for a person named Xietang, who can be identified as Zhou Yuanli (1706-1782). Zhou Yuanli, zi Bingzhong, a native of Renhe (Hangzhou), Zhejiang province, was an official of the Qing dynasty and contemporary of Ying and Cheng, known to have a hao as Xietang. More importantly the Qingshigao records that in the 40th year of Qianlong (yiwei year), (Zhou) Yuanli was seventy years old, a date that coincides with the inscription on the present brushpot by Ying Lian, which can be translated as 'last year (yiwei year, corresponding to 1775) you turned seventy years old, and this year (bingshen, corresponding to 1776) I will turn the same age'. For a complete biography of Zhou Yuanli, see Qingshigao, juan 324.