504 IVORY AND THE ELEPHANT 



Meissner, Andreas (or Johann Hein- 

 rich). In Danzig in the middle of 

 the eighteenth century. Wood, ivory, 

 and amber carvings. 



Mena y Medrano, Pedro de. Sculptor. 

 Of Aosta. Died in 1693 in Malaga. 

 Probably executed a statue of St. 

 Francis in the Cathedral of Toledo, 

 composed of ivory and other materials. 

 Pupil of his father and of Cano in 

 Granada. 



Mercier, . Exhibited in Musee 



GaUiera, 1903. 



Mere, Clement, of Paris. 



Meugnoit, , of Dieppe school. 



Nineteenth century. 



Meunier, Constantin. Born in Mer- 

 bach-les-Brussel. Exhibited in Brus- 

 sels Exposition, 1897. 



Meyenschein, , of Erbach school. 



Nineteenth century. 



Michelangelo Buonarotti. Born at 

 Castel Caprese near Arezzo, March 6, 

 1475; died in Rome, February 17, 

 1564. Several pieces of ivory carv- 

 ing are attributed to him, probably 

 erroneously; as, for instance, a "De- 

 position from the Cross" in the Na- 

 tional Museum, Florence. 



Michelet, Furmin Marcelxn. Ex- 

 hibited in Salon, 1908, portrait statu- 

 ette of Mme. J. D., done in marble 

 and ivory. 



Middegaels, exhibited in Musee Galliera, 

 1903. 



MiKi, M., New York, 1875. Formerly 

 of Japan. 



Migliara, Italian of eighteenth or nine- 

 teenth centmry. 



Millet, Jean. Flourished last half of 

 seventeenth century. 



MoGi, Y., 1877, New York. Formerly of 

 Japan. 



Molard (Mollard), Michel. Ivory car- 

 ver and metal worker of the seven- 

 teenth century. Flourished under 

 Louis XIV. 



Moreau-Vauthier. Born in Paris in 

 1832; died there in 1893. Exhibited 

 in the Salon of 1881, a chryselephan- 

 tine statuette "Fortuna"; in 1885, a 

 similar work, "Painting"; in 1889, 

 a bust from an exceptionally large 

 elephant tusk, and provided with a 

 gilded cuirass and helmet by Falize; 

 in 1903, at the Musee Galliera, 

 "Jeanne d'Arc au bticher," also many 

 other works in the Walters Collection. 



My3. Greek ivory worker, who executed 

 the high reliefs on the shield of the 

 Pallas Athena of Phidias, from de- 

 signs by Parrhesios. 



Nahali, Yusuf al. Arabian carver. Made 

 in the early part of the ninth century 

 an elaborately carved chessman, one 

 of a set given by Haroun al Kashid to 

 Charlemagne. 



Naukydes. Made statue of Hebe in Her- 

 eeum at Argos. 



Nevir, a., of Berlin. Genre figures; 

 ladies and gentlemen in Rococo or 

 Directoire costume, etc. 



Nicolle, Jean. This name inscribed on a 

 thirteenth-century pax in the British 

 Museum was once believed to be that 

 of the artist, but is now regarded as 

 that of the owner. 



Nicolle, of the Dieppe school. Pupil 

 of Blard. Statuettes and low reliefs 

 after the antique. "Bacchus" and 

 "Minerva" of Nicolle alne in Musee 

 Galliera, 1903. 



NordmjVNN, Jacob Jansex. Of Copen- 

 hagen; died 1680. Ships' models in 

 ivory; some in Rosenborg Collection, 

 Copenhagen. 



Noresse, J. Head of Christ, bas-relief, in 

 Musee Galliera, 1903. 



O'KiN, Mlle., of Paris. 



Olivier, Mme, Theodore Emile. Bom 

 in Bordeaux. Exhibited in Salon, 

 1904, portrait bust of Mme. G. 



Opstal, Gerhard (van). Born in Ant- 

 werp in 1595 (according to others, in 

 Brussels in 1604); died in 1688, in 

 Paris, where he had passed most of his 

 Ufe. His ivory work contributed more 

 to his fame than his work in stone 

 or bronze. Took Rubens as his model. 

 Many of his carvings were bought by 

 Louis XIV; crucifixes, low reUefs; 

 five of the latter now in the Louvre. 

 "Education of Bacchus" in the Musee 

 Cluny. 



OuiN, , of Dieppe school, nineteenth 



century. 



Ouvrier, , of Dieppe school, nine- 

 teenth century. 



Overes, A. G. Exhibited fans, caskets, 

 brooches, watches, etc., in Brussels 

 Exposition, 1897. 



Pachter. Exhibited in Kunstgewerbe 

 Museum, Berlin, 1894, 



