清十九世紀 琥珀刻「前赤壁賦」隨形鼻煙壺 《丙戌夏五月端陽六日石泉》款

隨形琥珀，色呈棗紅，晶瑩透亮，通體刻行書蘇軾《前赤壁賦》開首。

Hamilton 收藏，編號176
紐約蘇富比2003年3月27日，編號302

Christopher C.H. Sin，〈New York Auction Review〉，《國際中國鼻煙壺協會學術期刊》，2003年春，頁28，圖7
Hugh Moss、Victor Graham 及曾嘉寶，《A Treasury of Chinese Snuff Bottles: The Mary and George Bloch Collection》，卷7，香港，2009年，編號1582

There is some shallow flakes around the mouth and a few scratches to the lip, a few other minor scratches but overall the snuff bottle is in very good condition.
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此琥珀鼻煙壺刻文流暢揮灑，署名石泉，或乃吳隱（1866/7-1922年）之作。吳隱，紹興人士，以其篆刻著稱。琥珀形雖不規，卻引文人巧思，鐫宋時高士蘇軾名作《前赤壁賦》，讓紅石、詩文相互呼應，且妙以掌中煙壺之袖珍，突顯昔日詩人對人生奈何的感慨，烘襯文辭之浩瀚。