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It depicts a courting couple resting from a hawk hunt. \r\nIvory combs, together with mirror cases, boxes and gravoirs for parting the hair, formed an essential part of the trousse de toilette or étui (dressing case) of the typical wealthy lady or gentleman in the period. The two leading cities for ivory carving were Paris and Dieppe. Luxury items, such as combs were often made in Paris, especially during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During the seventeenth century Dieppe became increasingly significant for small-scale sculpture in ivory, perhaps because it was a port.\nBut here the facial types and general demeanour of the figures point unequivocally to a nineteenth-century date of production. Although taking fourteenth-century mirror cases as a general inspiration, the roundel is too small to have functioned in that way. If it had a use at all - and this is far from certain - the hole at the centre indicate that it was as cylindrical box lid. It is quite possible that it was not intended as a fake but rather as a neo-Gothic, proto-Pre-Raphaelite, tribute to fourteenth-century models. ","physicalDescription":"Ivory mirror case carved in low relief with a gentleman and lady with dog and hawk. The gentleman and lady are shown facing one another, both sitting on the ground in a wood apparently resting after hawking. The man raises his left hand on which a hawk comes to rest, and the lady plays with a small dog that she seems to be training with her pointing index finger. Pierced in the centre with a hole. 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