Excerpt from Catalogue of Beautiful Old Chinese Porcelain: Enamels, Jades, Gems, d104iles and Other Valuable Oriental Objects, and Modern and Ancient Oil Paintings To be a successful collector in any of the wide ranges of the fields of art one must needs be possessed with a natural love of beauty, both in color and form. The really great art collector is almost as rare as the musical genius or the great painter. They all, indeed, belong to one class, Since all are intelligent lovers of beauty, either of form, color or sound, far beyond the capacity of the ordinary man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.