From Nieuhoff to Alexander, from the Trianon to Brighton Pavilion, China had passed through the reigns of the emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong. This was a time when the cosmopolitan Qing dynasty had indeed presided over the world's richest economy in an age of stability and imperial patronage of the arts.
從尼霍夫到亞歷山大，從忒拉濃瓷宮到布萊頓別宮，中國經歷了康雍乾三代盛世，創造了世界驚羨的強大經濟與藝術收藏。