Plate 17, from "Samarkande"
Designer Emile-Allain Séguy French
Publisher Ch. Massin & Cie. French
Not on view
Seventeenth 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 thin, oval frames, colored with purple, containing bundles of semi-abstract leaves, colored with light gray and blue, and round fruits, colored with green and with blue and purple eye-shapes, on a purple ground.
