象牙雕刻而成的艺术品,向来都吸引着不少收藏人士,而牙雕本身也是杂项收藏中颇有分量的一类。我的一位资深藏友周先生,从事古玩艺术品收藏多年,目前收藏了几十件牙雕艺术品,大到几十厘米高的的象牙瓶,小到几厘米长宽的牙雕盒子。周先生介绍说,象牙是自然生长的一种有机物质,鉴别真假象牙最简单的方法就是看其横截面是否有网格纹,这种网格纹非常规整,但又不是那种死板的绝 Ivory carved works of art, has always attracted a lot of collectors, while the tooth carving itself is a considerable amount of miscellaneous items in a category. A senior Tibetan friend of mine, Mr. Zhou, has been engaged in the collection of antiques and artefacts for many years. He currently owns dozens of pieces of ivory artwork, ivory bottles up to tens of centimeters in height, and tooth carving boxes as small as a few centimeters in length and width. Mr. Chow introduced that ivory is an organic substance that grows naturally. The simplest way to distinguish between true and false ivory is to see if there is a grid pattern in its cross-section. This kind of grid pattern is very irregular but not rigid