Rectangular, in the Louis XVI style, the hinged cover enamelled in translucent pale peach over a wavy guilloché ground, with diamond-set ribbon-tied laurel-chased swags, with an oval panel enamelled in translucent white over a sunburst guilloché ground, centring a diamond, the back cover with conforming gold mounts and enamelled in translucent pale peach, centring a shaped panel enamelled in translucent white, one side fitted with a reeded gold pencil with a moonstone finial, with red suede-lined interior, marked on top edges
3½ in. (8.7 cm.) long, excluding pencil

Exhibition Catalogue, Fabergé, a Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Design, A La Vieille Russie, New York, 1983, listed and illustrated p. 65, no. 152.

New York, A La Vieille Russie, Fabergé, a Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Design, 22 April-21 May, 1983, no. 152.

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For a comparable example from the collection of Queen of the Netherlands, see Exhibition catalogue, Fabergé, Kunsthalle of the Hypo Kulturstiftung, Munich, 1986, no. 472. For another comparable carnet-de-bal presented by Nicholas II to Elizabeth Baletta from the Christie Collection, see G. von Habsburg, Fabergé in America, New York, 1996, p. 213, fig. 206.