Plate 18, from "Samarkande"

Designer Emile-Allain Séguy French
Publisher Ch. Massin & Cie. French

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Eighteenth 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 semi-abstract bundles of grapes, colored with purple, framed with dark green branches with offsetting thorns, and flanked above by large, pointed leaves, colored with two shades of green and dark red, separated by thin, interlacing branches, colored with dark red, with small, shuttle-shaped, green leaves, on a cream ground.

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