This Rococo silk represents the high point of naturalism achieved in the 1730s. A chinoiserie pavilion framing an ornamental ewer is set into a serpentine floral scroll in which the blossoms are meticulously shaded using colour hatching, a technique associated with Jean Revel (1684-1751), the greatest Lyonnais silk designer of his day. It produced a naturalistic three-dimensional effect more painterly than anything seen before in woven textiles.

The technique of colour hatching uses wefts of one shade alternating with wefts of another to create optically an intermediate tone. Shading is also done in chenille brocading wefts, which give an effect rather like velvet pile. The cannetillé ground with monochrome chequer pattern done in flushing warp floats adds complexity to the design.