Collection "Décors et Couleurs" Album No. 2, Planche 10

Pochoir pattern book, titled "Collection 'Décors et Couleurs' Album No. 2: Soixante-dix motifs décoratifs en dix-huit planches" (Collection 'Designs and Colors' Album No. 2: Seventy decorative motifs in eighteen plates), with Art Deco designs, probably for textiles, created by Jean Burkhalter and published in Paris by Éditions Albert Lévy, probably in the second half of the 1920s or the early 1930s. The book consists of a title page and 18 plates numbered 1-18, each with several designs, bound with dark blue linen boards. The designs contain a variety of geometric, abstract and semi-abstract motifs executed in various colors, some of them including natural-inspired figures such as birds and flowers. All of them are 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 tenth plate of the album presents three designs with semi-abstract floral motifs. The first design is made up of a series of cream trunks with dark green spots with semi-abstract flowers and leaves colored with shades of green, pink and brown, and a large bunch of semi-abstract leaves near the center of the design, colored with shades of green and pink, upon which stand out two semi-abstract flowers with pink petals, over a white ground framed with brown and dark green. The second design is made up of large semi-abstract flowers with petals colored with shades of pink and yellow and green spots, and smaller semi-abstract flower buds with yellow and orange petals on dark green stems with orange spots over a background made up of patches of light blue and light shades of green framed by a white irregular form. The final design consists of a semi-abstract vine with brown and dark green leaves and semi-abstract roses colored with shades of pink over a background made up of patches of light blue, mint green and pink.