Plate 8, from "Samarkande"
Designer Emile-Allain Séguy French
Publisher Ch. Massin & Cie. French
Not on view
Eighth 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 thin, vertical, undulating branches, colored with black and purple and yellow spots, and bundles of semi-abstract flowers with purple petals, flanked by small, yellow leaves, separated by scrolling, green lines, some with thin, yellow shadows, on a gray ground.
