The search for Utopia Perhaps the quality of Chinese export crafts could satisfy the Baroque search for splendor and imperial ethos. After the death of Louis XIV in 1715, however, the Rococo style's intoxication with lithe elegance took the image of the Chinese paradise to new extremes.
中國外銷工藝的質地，滿足了巴洛克時代講求的尊貴壯麗與與天子氣象；隨著一七一五年路易十四的去世，另一個沈醉在輕盈優雅、樂在今朝氣氛中的洛可可時代，更把中國的樂園意象發揮到了極致。