Formes et Couleurs, Planche 10

Tenth plate of pochoir pattern book with loose leaves titled "Formes et Couleurs: Vingt Planches en Couleurs Contenant Soixante-sept Motifs Décoratifs" (Forms and Colors: Twenty Colored Plates Containing Sixty-Seven Decorative Motifs), designed by Auguste H. Thomas and edited by Albert Lévy, published in Paris by Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts around 1930. The album is composed of one title page and 20 plates with several designs, numbered 1-20. The plates are stored inside a reconstructed black portfolio with title pochoir label on the front cover. The designs in the album are possibly for textiles and contain a variety of geometric motifs, birds and flowers, all 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 plate consists of four designs with semi-abstract motifs with flowers, leaves, and birds. The first design is made up of interlacing branches, colored with brown, with semi-abstract leaves, outlined with maroon, flowers, colored with shades of blue, and flower buds, made up of orange and blue dots, over an orange ground. The second design consists of two large, stylized birds with feathers colored with shades of green and blue, and yellow beaks and feet, standing on a tan branch and surrounded by semi-abstract leaves colored with pink, red, tan, and green, over a lavender-and-dark blue ground. The fourth design consists of large semi-abstract flowers, colored with pink and tan, with elongated leaves colored with shades of green, and surrounded by lavender leaves, over a violet ground. The final design is made up of thin, brown interlacing branches with semi-abstract leaves, colored with bluish-gray and yellow, and with clusters of flower buds made up of purple and light green dots, over a bluish-green ground.