Dance card

Accessories

Inventory number
2019.4.5.5ab.AC.OT.C1850.IT
Description
Grand Tour souvenir dance card notebook with a cover in tortoiseshell inlaid with mother of pearl forming "Roma" (Rome) surrounded by two bouquets of flowers. Contains one ivory plate with an original metal pencil inside.

The tortoiseshell notebooks are characteristic objects of the mid 19th-century (Second Empire). It allowed the dancer to remember the order of the dances on the program of the evening and the names of their partners.
Materials
Tortoiseshell
Ivory
Mother-of-pearl
Metal
Origin
circa 1850 Rome, Italy
Dimensions
Width : 1.5 cm
Length : 7.5 cm
Height : 10.5 cm