Ukiran gading

Ukiran gading adalah sebuah gading, yang dikatakan berasal dari gigi atau cula hewan, yang diukir memakai alat potong runcing, baik secara mekanis atau manual. Manusia memiliki ukiran gading ornamental sejak zaman pra-sejarah, meskipun sampai abad ke-19, terbuka di wilayah dalam Afrika, ini biasanya merupakan material mahal dan langka yang dipakai untuk barang-barang mewah.

Venus dari Brassempouy, sekitar 25,000 SM

Sumber

• "OB": Harold Osborne, Antonia Boström. "Ivories" in The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke. Oxford University Press, 2001. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Accessed 5 October 2010 [1]
• Osborne, Harold (ed), The Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts, 1975, OUP, ISBN 0-19-866113-4
• Rawson, Jessica (ed). The British Museum Book of Chinese Art, 2007 (2nd edn), British Museum Press, ISBN 978-0-7141-2446-9
• Williamson, Paul. An Introduction to Medieval Ivory Carvings, 1982, HMSO for V&A Museum, ISBN 0112903770

Pranala luar

• Netsuke: masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains many examples of ivory carving
• "Ivory - Carved Sculpture". Sculpture. Victoria and Albert Museum. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2009-02-27. Diakses tanggal 2007-09-22. 
• Asian Art Digital Collection at Gettysburg College Diarsipkan 2011-09-30 di Wayback Machine.
• The Corpus of Gothic Ivories - Major on-line database of ivory sculptures made in Western Europe c.1200-c.1530, hosted by the Courtauld Institute of Art