According to this point of view, craftsmen who had been inspired by the fashionable travel diaries and imports of the time came to combine all kinds of oriental styles with the products of their own imagination to create an appearance that things from China "ought to have."
換句話說，匠人們由當時風行的東方遊記或舶來品得來靈感，融合各種式樣，再加上自己的想像力，創造出歐洲人心目中，中國事物「該有的樣子」。