Antique Art Nouveau Carnet de Bal

A charming antique metal dance card or aide-mémoire, beautifully decorated with raised Art Nouveau floral motifs. The front features elegant trailing leaves and blossoms in relief, with additional foliate detailing along the hinged top. It opens like a tiny booklet with a functioning pencil and is suspended from an olive-green cord, making it wearable as a pendant or decorative collector’s piece.

Likely dating from the late 19th to early 20th century, this type of piece would have been used to hold small notes, calling cards, or a dance programme. A wonderfully romantic object with a lovely aged patina.