Vases, ewers and urns; statues, busts and bas-reliefs; cameos and intaglios - the drawing rooms of 18th-century England were filled with fiddly little thises and charming little thats, with jasperware trinkets and basalt-ware baubles.

花瓶、水罐和骨灰盒；雕像、半身像和浅浮雕；浮雕宝石和凹雕玉石——18世纪英国的客厅里摆满了精巧又迷人的小东西，还有碧玉器皿和玄武陶这些小玩意儿。