A delicate ivory sculpture is carved at a shop in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, last year. [Photo by ZOU HONG/CHINA DAILY] Ivory carvers in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, one of the major production ...

Dubai: The next time a special intricate carving or statue catches your eye in a local curio shop, think before you buy. If the piece is made of ivory, you may be in for more than you bargained given ...

ROUEN, France (AFP) - Annick Colette-Fremond is the fifth generation of her family to practise the art of ivory carving -- and she may be the last of her line, due to new rules in France. She is one ...

London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, commonly known as the V&A, has raised the £2 million (€2.385 million) needed to acquire a 12th-century walrus ivory formerly bound for the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

Archaeologists uncover 13,700-year-old mammoth ivory rods in Alaska, linking early carving traditions to Clovis culture ...

This remarkable miniature carving depicts two nymphs garlanding a herm, overlooked by putti. It is a tour de force of virtuoso ivory carving on minute scale. It was made by pair of German carvers ...

1. Art, Ivory and the Meiji Period: An Introduction -- 2. The Curiosity Shop: The Forces of Capitalism -- 3. Transformations of the Craftsman -- 4. Individualism, Orthodoxy and the Evolution of Ivory ...