If you take a treasure from the National Palace Museum, such as a subtle narcissus bowl of Ru porcelain, as a standard of taste, it must be admitted that Xuanzong's jewel-encrusted bowls were somewhat ostentatious, and that even the blue and white ware made for the foreign barbarians was rather more elegant.
如果再拿故宮國寶裡，溫潤幽寂的汝窯水仙盆作為品味標準，這唐玄宗金玉其外的水仙寶盆，未免財大氣粗，比起為青花驚豔的外方西夷猶且不如。