Ivory yellow through the best red

In the recent 20 years, with the global warming, the Arctic permafrost has melted and many remains of mammoths have been exposed to the surface. In the meantime, the world trade of ivory has been banned. Mammoth ivory has become the best substitute for modern ivory. However, so far, the value of modern ivory products is still higher than the mammoth teeth, first, because modern ivory as a collection has thousands of years of history; second mammoth hidden in the ground tens of thousands of years, the material changes, only did not become Fossil parts can be used for carving.

However, due to the non-renewable mammoth ivory, as its number gradually reduced, the value of catching up with modern ivory. It is understood that 20 years, the market value of mammoth ivory materials has skyrocketed dozens of times.

In recent decades, China's tooth carving art has also made great progress. "60-70 years ago, the domestic tooth carving is more than daily necessities, cigarette holder, business card case, chopsticks, etc., even in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, tooth carving is also a small piece of Guanyin works mainly in recent decades after the technical progress, large size , Works complicated works began to prevail, such as ivory ball, ivory dragon boat. "Li Dingning said.

In addition, different regions of the dental carving different characteristics. Guangzhou ivory features exquisitely carved, exquisite carving, for example, guanyin in Guangzhou ivory often gives graceful, elegant feeling. The style of Beijing ivory is more dignified.

Tooth carving market is gradually warming

It is reported that ivory products market began to gradually warming from 2005, but far from its peak.

"Although the price of ivory has risen by more than 10 times, there is still huge room for appreciation. As a result, there are only a few companies in China that own the qualification of producing modern ivory products, and foreign funds have not yet entered the field for speculation. In the past two years, the state banned auctioning of ivory products, limiting the price of dental carving. "Li Dingning disclosed that early ivory works of a certain age were not subject to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Ivory products for identification, the current national standards are still under development, once the introduction of the appropriate standards and grant qualified licensed auction houses several qualifications, ivory works to be patted, the price will set off a climax.