Shanghai-style Ivory Carving | Shanghai's Famous Intangible Cultural Heritage Card (1581)

Shanghai's Famous Intangible Cultural Heritage Card (1581). The ivory carving exhibition at the Shanghai Museum of Arts and Crafts showcases the unique charm of Shanghai's traditional handicraft. Ivory carving holds a place among China's four famous ivory carvings, known for its ethereal transparency, delicate craftsmanship, and the characteristics of having emotions within objects and scenes within scenes. The exhibition includes a variety of ivory carving techniques, such as openwork fine carving, skin carving, and round carving of figures. Among them, the openwork fine carving technique is particularly prominent. It mainly features scenes such as ships, lamps, flowers, fruits, mountains, clam scenes, fish scenes, crab scenes, etc., especially the fish scenes. These works, based on shapes like fish, birds, or lotus nodes, use hollowing-out techniques to carve out various animals, figures, flowers, and landscapes, creating a visual effect of flowers within flowers and scenes within scenes. The inner and outer scenes blend together, presenting a unique and interesting artistic characteristic.