Plate 4, from "Samarkande"
Designer Emile-Allain Séguy French
Publisher Ch. Massin & Cie. French
Not on view
Fourth 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 vertical, eye-shaped leaves, colored with purple and outlined with white, separated by interlacing branches with stylized leaves, colored with dark gray and white, and stylized, exotic flowers, positioned in pairs above the purple leaves, colored with blue, orange, dark gray, and white, on an orange ground.
