Lis (Lily), pl. 20

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 four ornamental designs inspired on the natural beauty of lilies, 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 alternating bundles of stylized lilies, colored with cream, and leaves, colored with light brown, with pastel green and blue details, over a dark reddish-brown ground. The second design is made up of a strip of bundles of semi-abstract lilies, their petals colored with light green and outlined with blue, the stigma colored with white and the anthers with light blue, and leaves, colored with dark green, on a green ground. The third design is made up of bundles of semi-abstract lilies, colored with pastel purple, and leaves, colored with shades of orange, over a grayish-purple ground. The fourth design, likely for a rug, is made up of two vertical strips of semi-abstract leaves, outlined with gray, with two pairs of stylized lilies on each end, colored with two shades of orange, and outlined with dark blue, on a yellow ground.