"That was an age that believed in Utopia," stresses Julius Bryant, director of museums at English Heritage. The Chinese style in the European decorative arts coincided with the traditional classical style and even the later neo-classical forms. The Europeans at that time always wanted to look to ancient Greece and Rome in the search for order and to create confidence about the future.
「那是一個相信烏托邦的時代」，英國文化遺產協會博物館部主任布蘭特強調，歐洲裝飾藝術裡的中國風格，始終與傳統的古典風格，甚至後來的新古典式樣並行，當時的歐洲人一直想要從古希臘羅馬傳統中找到完美的秩序，再創對未來的信心。