Advertising business card for Auguste Hock, a manufacturer of jewelry, silverware, and fine jewelry in Liège, offering wholesale and retail sales. The composition, centered on a chalice or silver cup, is enhanced by a radiating background, large scrolls, and corners with geometric decoration. A particularly graphic testament to luxury craftsmanship in Liège in the 19th century.
✦ Estimated period: circa 1850 ✦ Origin: Liège, Belgium ✦ Dimensions: approx. 10.5 x 6.5 cm ✦ Material: lithographed porcelain cardboard ✦ Condition: very good antique condition, with slight traces of time
Old porcelain card from a silversmith in Liège, ideal for a collection of 19th-century advertising, antique jewelry, and Belgian decorative arts.
