Another NTU professor, Tsao Yung-ho, chimes in that there are probably many reasons behind the Penghu porcelain: some of it was sold from the mainland with Penghu as its final destination; some came to Penghu accidentally from lost or shipwrecked vessels; some was brought here for transshipment elsewhere.
台大歷史系教授曹永和也認為，陶瓷遺留在澎湖的原因很多，將澎湖當目的地，從大陸賣到澎湖；因船難或迷航，無意間經過澎湖；將澎湖當轉運站，往南或往北走等都是，總之這些問題都有待更多資料佐證。