Stephan Zick, 1639-1715
To see more, read this amazing post at bioephemera.com. In fact, you could also just read everything tagged with Museum Lust. It will be worth your while.
I love how the makers of these figures, meant as teaching tools, went to a lot of trouble to make these women beautiful - perhaps a frivolous aim, or even a source of potential distraction for the poor students? This ivory one, not so much. But scroll down in the bioephemera post to see what I am talking about.
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I wanted to let you know that I also wrote about the small ivory models at my site Curious Expeditions (inspired in part by bioephemera)...