How to Sift Real Ivory From Fake?
When it comes to the Chinese culture, the ivory carvings that have been one of the highest forms of art for several thousand years now, is just as cherished now as it was many centuries ago. The artworks of ivory carvings is one of the utmost respected forms of the Chinese cultural expression, and the delicately intricate ivory carvings are the Chinese way of explaining themselves collectively, all with the carved pictures through the medium of story telling without the words. As for what considered being under the ivory category, there not only are the traditional mammoth ivory and the ivory of elephants, but the ivory of narwhals and walruses are also highly valuable for the Chinese ivory carver. Although, there are a good number of other types of animal ivory that can be carved from it is still the mammoth ivory, (in the past, before the ban on elephant ivory) elephant ivories, along with the ivories of the narwhals and walruses that have always been the most utilized types of ivory
