The result was inevitable.

The whole external side of life was lived amidst Italian, or (as we may perhaps call it) Roman-provincial, furniture and environment.
Take by way of example the development of the so-called 'Samian' ware.
The original manufacture of this (so far as we are here concerned) was in Italy at Arezzo.

Early in the first century Gaulish potters began to copy and compete with it; before long the products of the Arretine kilns had vanished even from the Italian market.

Western Europe henceforward was supplied with its 'best china' from provincial and mainly from Gaulish sources.

The character of the ware supplied is significant.