Collection "Décors et Couleurs" Album No. 2, Planche 11

Pochoir pattern book, titled "Collection 'Décors et Couleurs' Album No. 2: Soixante-dix motifs décoratifs en dix-huit planches" (Collection 'Designs and Colors' Album No. 2: Seventy decorative motifs in eighteen plates), with Art Deco designs, probably for textiles, created by Jean Burkhalter and published in Paris by Éditions Albert Lévy, probably in the second half of the 1920s or the early 1930s. The book consists of a title page and 18 plates numbered 1-18, each with several designs, bound with dark blue linen boards. The designs contain a variety of geometric, abstract and semi-abstract motifs executed in various colors, some of them including natural-inspired figures such as birds and flowers. All of them are typical of the Art Deco style, which was characterized by its eclecticism, drawing from a variety of sources that sought to combine old European design traditions with the modern style diffused by avant-garde art, while also reflecting the romantic fascination with early Egyptian and Meso-American "exotic" cultures promoted by archaeological discoveries of the times.

The eleventh plate of the album presents three designs with semi-abstract floral motifs. The first design is made up of two large semi-abstract lilies, one with petals colored with tan, red and yellow, the other with green, tan and red, and with dark green pistils with either red and black or green, pink and yellow clusters of polen, large semi-abstract leaves executed with tan and decorated with dark green and red, and a semi-abstract wheat ear to their right, colored with cream, pink, red, and yellow, over a background made with patches of brown, gray, dark green, and pastel shades of blue, green and pink. The second design consists of a bundle with semi-abstract yrllow flowers and pink and brown leaves over a background with patches of shades of brown, green and blue, sometimes decorated with horizontal strokes and spots. The last design is made up of two vertical branches with semi-abstract flowers and flower buds colored with red, orange and tan, and semi-abstract leaves colored with tan and shades of green over a background colored fragmentarily with shades of green, tan, burgundy and black.