Vide-poche so fancy looking you’d better keep Princess Alexandra’s card in it by itself and put the ones from everyone else in something else. A vide-poche is a small container that you keep by the door to put your keys in when you get home.

Screenshot (762) — “An Embrace” vide poche with the design of the heads and torsos of a man and a woman, sweeping up from the sides of the dish with an arm around each other. ca. 1900. Art Nouveau. French. Gilt bronze. Max Blondat, designer. Makers marks: Signed, “MAX-BLONDAT”. Foundry mark fork “Siot Paris”. Image © 1stdibs.com, Inc. 2020. Fair use license. via https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/decorative-objects/desk-accessories/max-blondat-french-art-nouveau-gilt-bronze-vide-poche/id-f_1091822/

1118mopvide.0L — Vide pouch in the form of a stemmed bowl with gilt bronze fringe. Napoleon III in style. Mother of pearl and gilt bronze in a floral motif with tassels. Maker not known. Image © 1995-2020 eBay Inc. Fair use license. via https://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-French-Palais-Royal-Mother-of-Pearl-Vide-Poche-Open-Salt-or-Jewel-Dish-/302988255346

champleve-enamel-vide-poche-in-chinoiserie-style-france-circa-1900-1145691-en-max — Trefoil shaped vide poche with a polychrome champlevé enamel dish and gilt brass winged dragon. ca. 1900. Chinoiserie. French. Enamel and gilt bronze. Image © Daelmans and antiek.com. Fair use license. via http://www.antiek.com/daelmans-106/champleve-enamel-vide-poche-in-chinoiserie-style-france-circa-1900-1320032

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