Carven

Anonymous Christian-Roman Sculptor
Christ healing the Paralytic
AD 400-415
ivory relief (fragment of altarpiece)
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Norwegian Sculptor
Chess Piece (King)
ca. 1200
walrus ivory
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Sculptor
Mourning Virgin from Crucifixion scene
ca. 1225-1250
ivory (originally painted)
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Sculptor
Descent from the Cross
ca. 1270-80
ivory (originally painted)
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous German Sculptor
St Sebastian
ca. 1600-1650
ivory (Rothschild bequest)
Musée du Louvre

Jacobus Agnesius
St Sebastian
ca. 1610
ivory
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Francesco Terilli
Christ aux outrages
ca. 1615
ivory
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Jürgen Kriebel
St John the Evangelist from Crucifixion scene
ca. 1620
ivory
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Sculptor
Portrait of Cardinal de Retz 
borne by Allegorical Figures
ca. 1654
ivory relief
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Pierre Jaillot
St Sebastian
1662
ivory
Musée du Louvre

Gérard van Opstal
Triton and Nereid
before 1668
ivory relief
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Chinese Sculptor
Head of a Woman
17th century
ivory relief (partly painted)
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous European Sculptor
The Unrepentant Thief
17th century
ivory (fragment of Crucifixion scene)
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Anonymous French Sculptor
The Judgment of Paris
17th century
pierced ivory relief
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Anonymous German Sculptor after Gianlorenzo Bernini
Bowl with Marine Deities
(imitation of Triton Fountain)
18th century
ivory
Musée du Louvre

Claude-Antoine Rosset
Portrait of Voltaire
after 1760
ivory bust
Musée du Louvre

Jean-Auguste Barre
Mademoiselle Rachel of the Comédie française
1848
ivory
Musée du Louvre

from Lines

(written at Geneva)

                        Although no flowers or grass

Grow from the corpse of a deceased sound,

Somewhat, methinks, should mark the air around

Its dying place and tomb,

A gentle music, or a pale perfume:

For hath it not a body and a spirit,

A noise and meaning? and, when one doth hear it

Twice born, twice dying, doubly found and lost,

That second self, that echo, is its ghost.

But even the dead are all asleep this time,

And not a grave shakes with the dreams of crime –

The earth is full of chambers for the dead,

And every soul is quiet in his bed;

Some who have seen their bodies moulder away,

Antediluvian minds, most happy they,

Who have no body but the beauteous air,

No body but their minds.

– Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1824)