Professor Oliver Impey, deputy curator of the Oriental department of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, says that the translucent white of Chinese porcelain first made Europeans think of eggshells or bone ash.
英國牛津艾須墨林博物館東方部副館長奧利佛．英匹教授表示，中國瓷器的瑩潔，最初讓歐洲人將之與蛋殼或骨灰聯想一處。