中国中原一带为原始的产象区,在7000年前河姆渡文化遗址和5000年前的大纹口文化遗址中都出土有象牙器皿和象牙雕刻。在我国黄河流域的山西、陕西等地,发现有几十万年前的象牙化石。商代以后,考古出土的象牙雕刻和象牙制品,更是层出不穷。至于清代乃是我国象牙雕刻的鼎盛时期,以康、雍、乾三朝尤为突出。牙雕与竹、木、角、金石等小件雕刻一样在当时成为几案上陈设珍玩。清初期象牙雕刻继承了明代的传统,不论 China’s Central Plains area as the original production area, in 7000 years ago Hemudu cultural sites and 5000 years ago in the large mouth of cultural sites have unearthed ivory vessels and ivory carving. In China’s Yellow River Basin, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places, found that hundreds of thousands of years ago, ivory fossils. After the Shang Dynasty, archeological unearthed ivory carvings and ivory products, is an endless stream. As for the Qing Dynasty but the heyday of China’s ivory carving, Kang, Yong, and three dynasties are particularly prominent. Tooth carving and bamboo, wood, angle, stone and other small pieces of carving at the same time become a few cases on the furnishings Jane. Early ivory carving inherited the Ming Dynasty tradition, no matter