• Mammoth Ivory

    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

    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

    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.

  • Gold

    14К

  • Pearl

    Pearls are very fragile and delicate material, and, considering the unique process of its formation, perhaps the most unusual one, because the living creature – the mollusk – participates in the process of creating the pearl. Olmart House uses in its artworks natural sea pearls of the highest quality only.

  • Garnet

    Olmart House uses only natural garnet with the highest quality characteristics in its products.

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Rat with a Ball of Yarn

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Lot specification

  • 145mm

    height

  • 145mm

    length

  • 120mm

    width

  • 886g

    weight

Rat with a Ball of Yarn is another work in which the master craftspeople of Olmart House have turned to an animal that, according to ancient oriental beliefs, symbolizes happiness and luck. The ball of yarn with which the figure of the rat is combined has always been associated with home warmth and comfort. The rat is made of mammoth ivory, her eyes of garnets. The yarn ball, into which have been inserted pearl-tipped gold needles, is carved of boxwood. Thanks to the refinement with which the fibers of the yarn have been elaborated, as well as to the tinting of the surface of the yarn ball, the whole ensemble looks remarkably lifelike. It rests atop an ivory stand.

Materials

  • Mammoth Ivory

    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

    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

    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.

  • Gold

    14К

  • Pearl

    Pearls are very fragile and delicate material, and, considering the unique process of its formation, perhaps the most unusual one, because the living creature – the mollusk – participates in the process of creating the pearl. Olmart House uses in its artworks natural sea pearls of the highest quality only.

  • Garnet

    Olmart House uses only natural garnet with the highest quality characteristics in its products.

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