For this new class of consumers, at a time when the Industrial Revolution was in full swing and the pace of life had changed, whether the pictures depicted garden scenes or boys riding buffaloes, the desire they expressed and the comfort they brought probably lay not in the imagery of faraway Xanadu, but simply in city dwellers 'longing for country life.
對於這一個新階層的青花消費者而言，盤中園景也好、牧童騎牛也罷，她所帶來的嚮往和撫慰，恐怕也不只是來自遠方的中國意象，而是工業革命如火如荼地發展，生活急驟改變後，城裡人對於山水田園、可居可遊的渴求了。