Plate 3, from "Samarkande"
Designer Emile-Allain Séguy French
Publisher Ch. Massin & Cie. French
Not on view
Third 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 large, thin, scrolling paisley shapes, colored with black and white spots, flanked to the sides by thin, scrolling branches, also colored with black and with white spots, with semi-abstract paisley shapes, colored with dark red, on a blue ground with brown outlines around the branches and leaves.
