Meanwhile P'u Yi feathered his own nest with proceeds from the collection. A batch of Sung porcelain, for instance, was mortgaged to a bank and later auctioned off when the term for repayment expired. The buyer was an English tourist, Sir David Eumorfopoulos, and the porcelain became the foundation of the Oriental art collection at the University of London.
那志良指出，清室曾經把一批宋元瓷器，向銀行抵押了錢，結果到期未還，落得拍賣，正好當時有位英國爵士大衛德到中國遊歷，買下許多，「此後著名的大衛德收藏，就是以這批瓷器為基礎。