Roses, pl. 5

Plate, part of a collection of 30 pochoir pattern plates, originally part of a book titled "Les fleurs et leurs applications décoratives" (Flowers and their decorative applications), created by Émile-Allain Séguy and published in Paris by A. Calavas, as part of the collection "Librairie des Arts Decoratifs" (Library of Decorative Arts) in 1902. The plate features three ornamental designs inspired on the natural beauty of roses, providing what Séguy considered a successful example of the application of scientific study of flowers in artistic creation, resulting in colorful designs likely intended for textiles or wallpapers. The first design is made up of interacing branches, colored with blue, with bundles of three semi-abstract roses, colored with pastel shades of purple, green, and yellow, over a light gray ground. The second design is made up of two overlapping roundels, one colored with purple and containing bundles of semi-abstract roses, colored with pastel shades of blue, and leaves, colored with green, between thin, interlacing branches with thorns, colored with blue; the other colored with purple, containing bundles of semi-abstract rose buds, colored with orange and with green sepals, over a greenish-brown ground with stylized, interlacing branches with leaves. The third design is made up of a horizontal strip of stylized roses, colored with shades of brown, flanked by small elaves, colored with green and brown, and with offsetting thin branches with thorns, executed with green and red, over a cream ground bordered by a thin, horizontal stripe, colored with red.