Plate 15, from "Samarkande"
Designer Emile-Allain Séguy French
Publisher Ch. Massin & Cie. French
Not on view
Fifteenth 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 vertical, undulating ribbons, colored with purple and outlined with brown, with semi-abstract roses, colored with light green and outlined with brown, flanked by semi-abstract, dark gray thorns with light green spots, and surrounded by thin, scrolling branches with small, semi-abstract leaves, colored with dark gray, with small, light green spots, on a green ground.
