在我国诸多工艺美术中,象牙雕刻是具有独特风华的一门。象牙属于有机质、表面滑润莹澈如玉,纹理细密规则、易受刀,用之雕刻精巧的器物,即成天然与人工斧凿之美的结合。最初的象牙制品只是一种实用工具,以后随着时间的推移,逐渐出现了装饰用品,并成为牙雕工艺的主流。早在商周时代,我国的牙雕工艺就极其发达,后历经汉、唐、宋、元、明代,牙雕工艺更为精湛。清代,是牙雕工艺的鼎盛时代,牙雕与竹、木、角、金、石等小件雕刻一样,成为几案上陈设珍玩。清代前朝,象牙雕刻继承了明代的传统,不论在生产技术或艺术创造方面,都有所发展。中期以后,象牙雕刻艺术创作方面走向了繁琐堆饰。当时,象牙雕刻分宫廷手工艺与民间手工 In many arts and crafts in our country, ivory carving is a unique and unique. Ivory belongs to the organic matter, the surface is smooth and jade, the texture is finely knotted, and it is easy to be impaled by the knife. The ivory is engraved with exquisite utensils, that is, the combination of natural and artificial ax chiseling. The first ivory products were just a practical tool, and as time went on, decorative items gradually emerged and became the mainstream of the ivy carving process. As early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties, China’s tooth-carving craft was extremely developed. After the Han, Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, the technique of tooth-carving was more exquisite. Qing Dynasty, is the heyday of the process of tooth carving, tooth carving and bamboo, wood, angle, gold, stone and other small pieces of carved, as a few cases on the furnishings Jane. Before the Qing Dynasty, Ivory carving inherited the Ming tradition, both in production technology or artistic creation, have developed. After mid-term, ivory carving art to tedious heap. At that time, Ivory carved palace handicrafts and folk handcraft