Plate 9, from "Samarkande"
Designer Emile-Allain Séguy French
Publisher Ch. Massin & Cie. French
Not on view
Ninth 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 thin, vertical, undulating branches, colored with brown, with semi-abstract paisley leaves, colored with brown and with a reddish-brown eye shape in the center, and semi-abstract exotic flowers with green petals, reddish-brown sepals, and long, thin, white scrolling stamina, on a dark gray ground.
