It was at this time that the European craze for Chinese things in the shape of chinoiserie seems to have become the main stream of ornamentation. On the face of it, it looks like Chinese forms were again back in vogue whereas, in fact, it signaled in the area of design China's increasing political and economical subordination to the West.
這時候，歐洲人卻又開始瘋狂於東方風味，所謂的「新華色悅」成為裝飾主流。表面上看來，中國形式似乎再度承歡；骨子的訴求，只怕與海上霸權的優越感與坐擁世界的新奇刺激有關。