It was only later, when he became a furniture expert for a famous auction house and began museum work that he started to look at what the so-called "Chinese style" meant from the perspective of art history.
直到後來成為知名拍賣公司家俱鑑定專家，又供職博物館，他才從藝術史的角度，去「研究」所謂的「中國風格」。