ivory-carving

In China, ivory is used primarily in the ivory-carving industry for cultural artworks, while in Japan the ivory is used largely for the production of musical instruments and hankos used as seals for official documents.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

Artisans in the ivory-carving trade, he explained, received a mere fifteen cents a day as compensation for their work, and this low cost of labor explains why China could sell a carving for around $300 when the same object would cost $3,000 if made in the United States.

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

Trade in ivory was banned in 1989 in an effort to protect elephant herds, which had been decimated by the demand for tusks, particularly from Asia's ivory-carving industry.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

I sell them to an agent of an ivory-carving shop in Tokio, who comes through these parts in the spring.

Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

The latter is not above two feet in length; but the manner in which every muscle and vein indicate suffering, and the mingled expression of pain and resignation in the countenance, place it on the footing of a statue; and I could hardly have supposed that a small piece of ivory-carving could do such justice to a sacred subject.

Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

The five-storied pagoda, the temple of the five hundred genii, the water-clock, the criminal court -- where several poor wretches are seen almost flayed alive with bamboos-flower-boats, silk, jade-stone, ivory-carving shops, temple of tortures, and a dozen other interesting places are visited under the pilotage of the genial guide and interpreter Ah Kum.

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

In Germany in this century ivory-carving was much practised and used for a great variety of purposes.

A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875

About the beginning of the tenth century ivory-carving was much used for church purposes.

A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875