A book entitled Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing, published in London in 1688, stressed as its purpose, "What can be more surprising than to have our chambers overlaid with varnish more glossy and reflecting than polished marble!"
一本一六八八年在倫敦出版的《論髹漆》開宗明義地強調：「有什麼能把我們的廂房裝飾得比大理石更加光澤鑑人，更叫人驚奇的方法呢？」