"Elegance, Beauty, Exquisiteness and Cleverness" —— Tooth carving works: Eight Scenes of Yangcheng, Fuxing, etc

Ivory is fine in texture and moderate in hardness, which is a good natural material for making high-grade handicrafts. Ivory carving art can be divided into four categories: figures, animals, flowers and scenery.

Because Guangzhou is located in the southern coast, the climate is mild and humid, which is very suitable for delicate ivory carving and layered carving, and the works are not easy to be brittle. Therefore, Guangzhou tooth carving technology has a long history, fine and neat, and exquisite decoration.

There are various techniques and styles of ivory carving, such as round carving, shallow relief, high relief and carving.

Generally, it can only be realized by comprehensive use of painting, carving and other techniques. Carving technology was available in Song Dynasty, which was suitable for carving ivory balls. The ivory ball was called "ghost work ball" in ancient times. During the Qianlong period, the ivory ball had developed into thirteen layers of sculpture. The carving process is extremely complicated, which requires artists to have superb skills and quality to complete.

This is the tooth ball flower basket below.