The extreme intricacy of the design of this vase demanded the use of the cire perdue technique. Lalique often used cire perdue as a means of creating prototype vessels for future mass production, but the complexity of this model suggests it was always intended as a show piece to demonstrate Lalique's technical virtuosity.

cf. Felix Marcilhac, R. Lalique, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de verre, Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, p. 1026, ref. CP 342