Plate 10, from "Samarkande"
Designer Emile-Allain Séguy French
Publisher Ch. Massin & Cie. French
Not on view
Tenth plate of album with 20 pochoir pattern plates, titled "Samarkande: 20 Compositions en couleurs dans le Style oriental" (Samarkand: 20 Color Compositions in the Oriental Style), created by E. A. Séguy and published in Paris by Charles Massin around 1914, presenting an ornamental design, probably for textiles or wallpapers, with semi-abstract flower motifs, inspired on the Oriental styles created by the artists of Samarkand. The design is made up of alternating rows of overlapping lozenges, outlined with irregular, green lines, containing fountain motifs, flanked by branches and bushes, colored with black, with small, abstract, pastel green blossoms, and thin, scrolling streams of water, colored with silver, which scroll around the fountain and form the lower part of two of the lozenges framing it, on a purple ground.
