Of all 13,000 objects in the British Museum that are made of ivory, the Lewis Chessmen are perhaps the most revered. The exhibit is easy to spot among the numerous display cases in the museum’s ...
The UK’s Court of Appeal has dismissed a legal challenge from antiques dealers trying to reverse the country’s near-total ban on ivory trading. The Ivory Act passed into law in December 2018 amid ...
An heirloom bronze elephant with ivory tusks, great-grandmother’s piano with ivory keys, a vintage ivory chess set or an antique silver teapot with a small ivory inset in the handle to keep it cool ...
An heirloom bronze elephant with ivory tusks, great-grandmother’s piano with ivory keys, a vintage ivory chess set or an antique silver teapot with a small ivory inset in the handle to keep it cool ...
This spring has seen greater restrictions on the ivory trade in the United States, and while conservation groups and those concerned with the shocking depletion of the elephant and rhinoceros ...
Colin has been writing about the ups and downs of the global art market for 29 years. A regular contributor to a number of notable art world publications he writes The Daily Telegraph’s weekly Art ...
Two art trade organizations are suing New York State over the right to sell antique ivory. In an unusual case, Art and Antique Dealers League of America and the National Art and Antique Dealers ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Wednesday declared unconstitutional part of a New York law that imposed tough limits on the sale of ivory and rhinoceros horns, voiding restrictions on ...
The BBC's Antiques Roadshow is cracking down on ivory appearing in the popular series due to public support for the campaign led by Prince Charles and his son William to stamp out elephant poaching.
Unlike an elephant’s tusk which is obvious contraband, determining the age of an ivory carving requires more than plain sight. The DENR said it will ask the National Museum of the Philippines to help ...
Of all 13,000 objects in the British Museum that are made of ivory, the Lewis Chessmen are perhaps the most revered. The exhibit is easy to spot among the numerous display cases in the museum’s ...