Customs officers in Hong Kong and neighbouring Guangdong confiscated the ivory, worth HK$26.7m (£2.2m) and weighing a total of 3.8 tonnes, in raids at a container port last week, the Hong Kong government said.
"It is the biggest ever in Hong Kong in the number of tusks seized in a single seizure," a government spokesman said.
Customs officers found 972 tusks and the ornaments in bags of plastic scraps inside a container that arrived from Tanzania on Tuesday, the government said. Another 237 tusks were found the next day in a container carrying beans from Kenya.
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