Page 15 - Catalog Of Chinese Applied Art

PREFACE

npHE Committee of the Manchester City Art Gallery desires to

record its most grateful thanks to all those collectors who, by
their generous and liberal response to its requests for loans, have enabled
this Exhibition of Chinese Applied Art to be brought together for the

public good. With singularly few exceptions, every collector who was

approached has responded most readily.

The Committee have also to thank Mr. William Burton for the time

he has devoted to the selection of the exhibits, and the care and labour
that he, Mr. Gordon M. Forsyth, Mr. John Chambers, and other artists
on the staff of Messrs. Pilkington's have spent on the arrangement and

classification.

Finally we have to thank the gentleman who prefers that his name
should not be given, who has most unselfishly laboured in collecting and
packing all the loans from London and the South.

FREDERICK TODD
Chairman

June 1913