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The cover is inscribed with a poetic inscription Songfeng Shuiyue (Pine 姚漓燾（1860年卒），字蓮浦，浙江秀水人，諸生，噬古有癖，精研畫理，
breeze, water moon), followed by the date and a signature ‘Lian Pu’. 家富收藏，點壁寫生，輒饒清韻。
The base is impressed with a collector’s mark Lan Juan qing pin (For
the clear appreciation of Lan Juan). 帥翰階，字蘭娟，清代奉新人，知府帥家相女孫，州同帥煥女。裘第元室。
有《綠陰紅雨軒詩鈔》，《閨閣百家詩鈔》選其詩14首。《壺中天地》，1987
There was a fashion that scholars engaged in the design and 年第一期有著錄另一隻蘭娟清品款壺，頁24。
production of Yixing teapot in the mid Qing Dynasty, which introduced
more literati designs such as painting and calligraphy to the teapot. 文人聚會詩酒茶必不可少，清中期以來文人甚至直接參與茶器設計及
Shuai Hanjie, sobriquet Lan Juan, was a female poet, also of the 製作，著名者有陳鴻壽與玉成窯。可參考一件同樣款識的墩式壺， 見胡
Daoguang period. Another teapot bearing the marks of Lian Pu and 付照著，《讀壺小品》，北京，2012年，頁156-157。
Lan Juan qing pin was published in Huzhong Tiandi (The world of
the Yixing teapot), 1987-1, p. 24. Compare with a very similar Yixing
teapot with the same mark, which is illustrated by Hu Fuzhao in Duhu
xiaopin (Short Essays on Yixing Teapots), Beijing, 2012, pp.156-157.