He spared no expense to enhance his collection of oriental porcelain, and is said to have spent 100,000 thalers on it in the first year of his reign. He is even rumored to have given a whole regiment of Saxon dragoons to the King of Prussia in exchange for 48 porcelain vases.
他不惜傾國傾城，來增色東方瓷器的收藏傳說在他第一年掌政時，就花去了十萬德幣買瓷，又曾經瘋狂地以一整個薩克森精練的軍團，換取普魯士王的四十八個瓷瓶。