Floréal, Pl. 8

Eighth plate of album with 20 pochoir pattern plates, titled "Floréal: Dessins & Coloris Nouveaux" (Floreal: New Designs and Colors), created by Émile-Allain Séguy and published in Paris by A. Calavas in 1925 or earlier. The plate contains four ornamental designs, possibly for textiles or wallpapers, with lively, semi-abstract motifs inspired from nature. The first design is made up of stylized trees with scrolling branches, colored with light green, and clusters of leaves, colored with orange, and outlined with small eye shapes colored with white and outlined with black, and semi-abstract flowers, colored with light green, and outlined with black and white, with dark blue shadows with offsetting, purple thorns, on a yellow background with groups of five thin, undulating, white vertical stripes. The second design is made up of overlapping, alternating leaves, colored with undulating stripes of green, white, and blue color, and purple rectangles, outlined with dark brown, on a pastel yellow ground framed by two thin, vertical, dark brown stripes. The third design is made up of short, wide, ornamental vases, colored with white and shades of green, flanked by thin, undulating branches, colored with shades of green, with semi-abstract leaves, colored with purple, and fruits, colored with red, on a striped background colored with black, blue, and green. The fourth design is made up of undulating garlands of thin, elongated leaves, colored with dark green and red, and bundles of semi-abstract, round fruits, made up of rings colored with shades of purple, on a pastel yellow ground.