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title: Ivory sculptures
date: "2007-04-28T12:00:00Z"
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Ivory sculptures at the Guangzhou Chen Family Temple. The first two, especially, have spheres within spheres within spheres... which looks impossible to carve.

[![Intricately carved ivory at the Chen Family Temple](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/221/475327044_cea0bed189_m_d.jpg)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/gserafini/475327044/) [![Intricately carved ivory at the Chen Family Temple](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/202/475333589_2923718108_m_d.jpg)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/gserafini/475333589/)

[![Intricately carved ivory at the Chen Family Temple](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/475327678_96cf4b9551_d.jpg)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/gserafini/475327678/) [![Intricately carved ivory at the Chen Family Temple](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/475328396_f656258379_d.jpg)](http://www.flickr.com/photos/gserafini/475328396/)