Oliver Impey also says that this seems to be the first time that people in the West saw real Chinese art, rather than what the Chinese "considered suitable or had specially made for export to the tasteless barbarians of Europe."
英匹博士也指出，這幾乎是西方人第一次看到真正的中國藝術，「而不是專做給沒品味的歐洲蠻族的外銷貨」。