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Boar knife
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Bull knife
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The Panther Knife
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The Tiger Knife
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Snake with a Pearl and a Ladybug
140 mm
height
196 mm
length
160 mm
width
Snake with a Rose is an artwork which combines symbols both of wisdom and beauty. It brings together mammoth ivory and boxwood, while on one of the rose’s petals a dewdrop is depicted in mother-of-pearl. The eyes of the snake are garnets, and the stand atop which all of these elements sit is of ebony.
Mammoth ivory is a unique material because of its value and properties. Tusks which have been lying for tens of thousands of years in permafrost, are extracted today in just a few regions of our planet. A very small percentage can be kept in a condition suitable for sculpture manufacturing. The Olmart House uses mammoth ivory of superior quality only.
Boxwood is a southern light wood which is malleable for artistic carving. It is dense, with a uniform texture, well-polished and allows the carver to perform the most filigree work, working out the smallest details in the sculpture. In the works by Olmart House, boxwood sometimes is kilned and toned.
Ebony is the black tree which grows in the humid tropical forests of Africa and Asia, and it belongs to the rarest and the most valuable wood species. Very hard and heavy, drowning in water, it requires special continuous processing, special drying conditions, before it becomes suitable for carving and making artworks.
Formed in the balmy waters of the southern hemisphere, the mother-of-pearl we select at Olmart House is exceptionally thick and dense.
Olmart House uses only natural garnet with the highest quality characteristics in its products.
Mammoth ivory is a unique material because of its value and properties. Tusks which have been lying for tens of thousands of years in permafrost, are extracted today in just a few regions of our planet. A very small percentage can be kept in a condition suitable for sculpture manufacturing. The Olmart House uses mammoth ivory of superior quality only.
Olmart House Ltd, Reg.Nr. 1741425, 30.10.2012, P. O. Box 71, Craigmuir Chambers, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.