In the 17th century the Dutch imported tulips from Turkey, and the businessmen of the time drove the prices up to extraordinary levels. So it is not hard to imagine what a fashionable, opulent and up-to-date product these vases were, combining as they did the two rarest items of the age!
荷蘭在十七世紀時由土耳其進口鬱金香，當時被商人炒作得極其昂貴；不難想像，此瓶結合當時最稀奇的兩樣東西，該是多麼時髦富有的尖端產品！