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and the Frontispiece ofthe later developmentof Louis Quinze style.Plates 66 and 67 showa rather varied but verytypical treatment, chieflyof the rose.

The Lyonese weaverRinguet was the first tointroduce the naturalisticflower into French silkpatterns, and themodelling" of the floralmotives so as to givethe effect of light andshadow was the inven-tion of another Lyoneseweaver, Jean Revel(1684-1750).

In the period of-Louis XVI. (1774-89)natural flowers are lessfrequently the motive ofthe pattern, and theforms are treated with agreater degree of refine-ment and reticence, in-sistence being laid, as inEastern design, uponbeauty of drawing andperfect distribution ofpattern rather than uponthe imitative light andshade effects and fancyweavings of the preced-ing period.

Philippe de Lasalleand Gabriel Tri chardwere distinguished de-signers at this time;the design (fig. 41) byTrichard is typical ofhis refined type of orna-