Plate 2, from "Samarkande"

Designer Emile-Allain Séguy French
Publisher Ch. Massin & Cie. French
ca. 1914
Not on view
Second 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 groups of semi-abstract, elongated trees, colored with black and outlined with dark purple and with offsetting thorns, standing on semi-abstract patches of grass, colored with green and black spots, and outlined with irregular, black lines with offsetting thorns, and cherry trees with undulating branches and with small, pink, abstract cherry blossoms, on a purple ground.

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Object Information
  • Title: Plate 2, from "Samarkande"
  • Series/Portfolio: Samarkande
  • Designer: Emile-Allain Séguy (French, 1877–1951)
  • Publisher: Ch. Massin & Cie. , Paris
  • Date: ca. 1914
  • Medium: Pochoir
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 5/16 in. (44.5 × 31.3 cm)
    Album: 18 1/16 × 13 5/16 × 11/16 in. (45.8 × 33.8 × 1.8 cm)
  • Classifications: Books, Prints, Ornament & Architecture
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920, transferred from the Library
  • Object Number: 1991.1073.44(2)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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