The figures in them are a mish-mash of Chinese and Western elements, and the Four Doctors-- four scholars sitting in debate under a flowering plum tree--are believed by Dr. Klaas Ruitenbeek, curator of the oriental section of the Rijksmuseum (the Netherlands 'national museum), to be transmogrifications of the four Chinese spirits of prosperity, honor, longevity and happiness.
其中人物造型不免洋腔洋調，梅花樹下高坐清議的「四博士」，荷蘭國立博物院東方部館長魯克思博士認為，他們是中國福祿壽喜四神的化身。