Description
A French card advertising sign for E. Cusenier & C, laid out to resemble a tiled mosaic. A labelled bottle at left sits beside bold white lettering reading “E. Cusenier & C / Château du Solençon / Cognac,” with a crowned trademark vignette above and “Cognac 3 Couronnes” in the base band.
Cusenier was a long-established French spirits house, and this piece reflects the era’s heavy use of branded point-of-sale material for cafés and wine merchants, promoting a specific quality tier (“3 Couronnes” / three crowns).
The dense tessellated background and raised-shadow typography suggest chromolithographic printing on stout card, intended for counter or wall display. Believed to be from 1910s or early 1920s.
