Ornamental designs with semi-abstract patterns and thin bundles of flowers and leaves
Published by Fleury Chavant French
Edited by Vasselon French (?)
Lithographed by Georges Schlatter French
Not on view
Page of book containing 185 leaves with a collection of lithographs, aquatints, engravings, and other media, with ornamental designs published by Fleury Chavant in Paris, part of the publication "Guide du Dessinateur de l'industrie: une macédoine de dessins variés , tels que fleurs, ornemens, etc. ... Ouvrage destiné aux fabricants et dessinateurs de soieries... et Papiers Peints..." This plate contains several ornamental designs with semi-abstract motifs and thin bundles of flowers and leaves. On the upper part of the sheet are two straps, rendered with thin, vertical, black stripes, and decorated with thin, undulating garlands with stylized flowers and leaves, flanked above and below by C- and S-curves. Below them are several small designs, one made up of semi-abstract scrolling paisley leaves on a stippled ground, a thin bundle with stylized flowers and leaves, a pattern with amoeba-like shapes on diagonal stripes made up of zig-zagging lines, a semi-abstract pattern with undulating lines, a striped pattern made up of vertical strips of alternating pearls and elongated ovals with eye shapes on a dark ground, and a pattern with alternating strips of ovals on a background with vertical stripes, rendered alternatingly with thin, black, diagonal and horizontal lines. On the lower-right of the paper is a textile (?) design, consisting of a checked pattern made up of thin vertical and horizontal stripes, rendered with thin, diagonal, black lines, and thicker vertical and horizontal stripes made up rectangles with bubbles and undulating ribbons over a dotted background, squares with interlacing ribbons, flowers, or diagonal stripes, triangles with garlands of flowers and leaves or scrolling acanthus leaves, and thin rectangles with strips of S-curved acanthus leaves.