Calling Card "A. Sellier, Painter" - 19th Century

Elegant lithographed advertising business card of A. Sellier, painter of carriages and apartments in Ghent. The particularly narrative decor evokes the various skills of the workshop - painter at work, interior decoration, carriage and country scenes - in a frame of draperies and flowers. Lithograph signed G. Jacqmain, Rue Basse in Ghent.

✦ Estimated period: circa 1850
✦ Provenance: Ghent, Belgium
✦ Dimensions: approx. 12 x 8.5 cm
✦ Material: lithographed porcelain cardboard
✦ Condition: good antique condition, with patina, small foxing and slight visible traces of time

Old Ghent porcelain card, ideal for a collection of Belgian advertising lithographs, 19th-century decoration and the history of crafts.