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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 493321, member: 2844&quot;]I agree with Bronwen, painting and dyeing ivory is not unusual in Asia. I have an antique ivory keris hilt which was dyed black to look like ebony, which was more expensive in the region at the time. Another one, which belonged to one of my ancestors, was painted red to indicate the owner was a member of the royal family.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my experience lesser quality paint can show this kind of wear in a couple of decades. Chinese resin figurines usually don&#039;t have ivory lines, and to have detailed fake ivory lines underneath lesser quality paint doesn&#039;t make sense to me.</p><p>And yes, there was folk carved ivory in China as well as highly artistically carved ivory.</p><p><br /></p><p>But ultimately Jal is in the best position to see if it actually is ivory or not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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