This porcelain jug has an embroidered textile texture. The willow tree and love birds from the willow pattern story have been embroidered and cast and the stitched lines overpainted with cobalt to give a rice blue in the jug’s final firing. The interior and handle have a shiny transparent glaze and there are three sprigged button on the base.

There are many processes in the making of this jug, from the embroidering of the birds and willow tree, casting the fabric in plaster, pressing, handbuilding the slabs of porcelain to construct the jug to the painting over the stitches with cobalt, to achieve the trompe l’oeil textile effect.