Plate 1, from "Samarkande"
Designer Emile-Allain Séguy French
Publisher Ch. Massin & Cie. French
Not on view
First 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 alternating rows of square frames, executed with irregular, black lines, containing bundles of three large, Orientalist flowers with orange petals and long, thin, scrolling, white stamina, and smaller, semi-abstract rosettes with purple petals around gray, black and white centers, and green leaves, on a dark gray ground.
