mirror-case

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Object Type
Museum number: 1856,0623.109
Description: Mirror-case; ivory; lady and gentleman seated on bench; both wear hawking gloves; man has hawk on wrist; edge has rebate, once an applied border, possibly of metal; hole for suspension at top.
Production date: 14thC
Production place: Made in: France
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 90 millimetres; Weight: 57.80 grammes; Depth: 10 millimetres
Bibliographic references: Dalton 1909 / Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era with Examples of Mohammedan Art and Carvings in Bone in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (376); Koechlin 1924 / Les Ivoires Gothiques Français (991)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Damage around edge.
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1856,0623.109

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