Clunas says that one of the things they want to force people to confront by drawing together the collection in the Chinese Export Art Gallery, is that the objects on display are in fact Chinese, that Chinese craftsmen made extremely good things for the West at that time, and that they covered a wide variety of crafts for a very long period.
柯博士指出，維多利亞外銷館希望能藉其展示，刷新人們的記憶，提醒大家接受這些東西事實上「是中國的」。