A good Chinese Canton carved ivory card case, 19th century, finely carved throughout with figures, a boat, a seated noblewoman in a wheeled chair and pagodas amidst trees, flowering shrubs and flowers, the lower corners carved with pairs of peaches, pull-off cover, containing a folded piece of pink laid paper with stamped Mandarin seal, the paper inscribed 'Mandarin of Chung Chou', 4? x 3in. (11.5 x 7.6cm.).