Collection "Décors et Couleurs" Album No. 2, Planche 13

Pochoir pattern book, titled "Collection 'Décors et Couleurs' Album No. 2: Soixante-dix motifs décoratifs en dix-huit planches" (Collection 'Designs and Colors' Album No. 2: Seventy decorative motifs in eighteen plates), with Art Deco designs, probably for textiles, created by Jean Burkhalter and published in Paris by Éditions Albert Lévy, probably in the second half of the 1920s or the early 1930s. The book consists of a title page and 18 plates numbered 1-18, each with several designs, bound with dark blue linen boards. The designs contain a variety of geometric, abstract and semi-abstract motifs executed in various colors, some of them including natural-inspired figures such as birds and flowers. All of them are typical of the Art Deco style, which was characterized by its eclecticism, drawing from a variety of sources that sought to combine old European design traditions with the modern style diffused by avant-garde art, while also reflecting the romantic fascination with early Egyptian and Meso-American "exotic" cultures promoted by archaeological discoveries of the times.

The thirteenth plate of the album presents five designs with semi-abstract floral motifs executed with mostly with shades of purple. The first design is made up of a large semi-abstract flower with petals colored with shades of purple and gray that stands on a branch with semi-abstract leaves colored with gray, black and shades of gray over a background with patches of shades of gray, black and purple. The next two designs are made up of semi-abstract flowers executed with shades of pink and aquamarine over patched backgrounds, one with purple and black, the other with black, cream and shades of gray, and with yellow and aquamarine dots forming the pistils of the flowers. The third design consists of a large semi-abstract flower with tan and cream petals with white dots and yellowish-green pistils on a background colored with shades of purple, short gray strokes and black glitches. The final design is made up of semi-abstract flowers with black petals and cream and black pistils over a background with abstract figures colored with blue, brown, cream and shades of purple.