Throughout the eighteenth century the painters who worked for the Aubusson Manufactory produced exotic designs, following the success of the Beauvais and Gobelins manufactories. Exoticism was a theme much appreciated at the time by a refined elite.

Jean Pillement, an eighteenth-century painter, and engraver was one of the main figures behind the spread of chinoiseries in the second half of that century. His themes are fanciful representations of the Orient, of a distant and idealised China, with a strong decorative component.

The tapestries in this series all deal with themes involving dancing, fishing, and hunting. The human figures, almost always Oriental, are framed by garlands of flowers, bushes, pagodas, and a wide range of animal species, such as fish, birds, dragons, etc.

These tapestries, which belong to a series of seven, were produced after a set of Pillement drawings engraved in 1771 by Jean-Jacques Avril.