If you were to point at an exported cabinet and ask a scholar of English furniture or country houses what it is, he would probably answer that it is eighteenth-century English and remark on how such lacquer was treasured by the ladies and gentlemen of that period.
如果指著一件外銷櫥櫃，問一位專攻英國傢具的學者或鄉村宅邸專家：這是什麼？他或許會告訴你，這是十八世紀的英國時尚，當時的紳士淑女又是如何鍾愛這種描金漆器。