Excerpt from Catalogue of a Collection of Oil Paintings and Water-Color Drawings by American and European Artists and of Oriental Art Objects, Belonging to Thomas E. Waggaman, of Washington, D. C I am particularly indebted to Professor Ed ward S. Morse, a distinguished scientist, as well as a great expert in Japanese pottery, for his assistance in obtaining many rare speci mens, and for much valuable information about the names and dates of Japanese pot tery I owe much to the late Mr. Edward Greey, for his assistance in selecting many choice specimens of Chinese porcelains, and for his painstaking service in preparing my earlier catalogues. I also have to thank Mr. Thomas B. Clarke and Mr. R. E. Moore for many rare Specimens of Chinese porcelains and jades which I secured through them. 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.