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Cast in Bronze and Stone: Bibliography CAST IN BRONZE AND STONE: BIBLIOGRAPHY 1873 300010 BUSHELL, S.W. “The Stone Drums of the Chou Dynasty.” Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society n.s. 8 (1873): 133-179. 1893 300020 CHAVANNES, Édouard. “Les inscriptions des Ts’in.” Journal Asiatique (ns) 1 (1893): 473-521. 1909 300030 PARKER, Edward H. “The Ancient Chinese Bowl in the South Kensington Museum (I).” Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record, 3rd ser., 28, no. 55 (1909): 127-146. 300040 PARKER, Edward H. “The Ancient Chinese Bowl in the South Kensington Museum (II).” T’oung Pao ser. 2, 10 (1909): 445-494. 1911 300050 GILES, Herbert A. “Chinese Bronzes.” Adversaria Sinica 1911: 283-297. 300060 HOPKINS, Lionel C. “Chinese Writing in the Chou Dynasty in the Light of Recent Discov- eries.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 43.4 (1911): 1011- 1038. 1912 300070 GILES, Herbert A. “The Chinese ‘Bronze Bowl’ in the Victoria and Albert Museum.” Ad- versaria Sinica 1912: 329-331. 300080 GIPPERICH, H. “The Bushell Bowl.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 44.2 (1912): 1091-1093. 300090 HOPKINS, Lionel C. “The Chinese Bronze Known as the ‘Bushell Bowl’ and Its Inscrip- tion.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 44.2 (1912): 439-457. 1915 300100 FERGUSON, John C. “The Bushell Platter or the Tsin Hou P’an.” Journal of the Royal Asi- atic Society for Great Britain and Ireland 1915: 113-118. Open Access. © 2019 Shaughnessy/JAS, published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501516948-010 230 | CAST IN BRONZE AND STONE: BIBLIOGRAPHY 1916 300110 PETRUCCI, M.R. “L’épigraphie des bronzes rituels de la Chine ancienne.” Journal Asi- atique (série 11) 7 (1916): 5-76. 1923 300120 YETTS, W. Perceval. “A Famous Chinese Bronze.” Burlington Magazine for Connois- seurs 43.246 (1923): 121. 1924 300130 FERGUSON, John C. A Bronze Table with Accompanying Vessels. Peiping, 1924. 300140 KOOP, Albert J. Early Chinese Bronzes. London: Ernest Benn, 1924. 300150 PELLIOT, Paul. “A propos des bronzes de Sin-tcheng.” T’oung Pao 23.4 (1924): 255-259. 1927 300160 MASPERO, Henri. Review of Takata Tadasuke, Kou Tcheou P’ian. Journal Asiatique 210 (1927): 121-142. 300170 BISHOP, Carl W. “The Bronzes from Hsin-cheng Hsien.” In The Smithsonian Report for 1926. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1927. Pp. 457-468. 1928 300180 BISHOP, Carl W. “The Find at Hsin-cheng Hsien.” Artibus Asiae 3 (1928/1929): 110-121. 300190 FERGUSON, John C. The Four Bronze Vessels of the Marquis of Ch’i. Peiping, 1928. 300200* FERGUSON, John C. “The Four Bronze Vessels of the Marquis of Ch’i.” Eastern Art 1.1 (1928): 42-47. 1929 300210 YETTS, W. Perceval. The George Eumorfopoulos Collection, Catalogue of the Chinese and Corean Bronzes, Sculpture, Jades, Jewellery and Miscellaneous Objects, Volume 1, Bronzes: Ritual and Other Vessels, Weapons, Etc. London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1929. 1930 300220 PELLIOT, Paul. “Review of Les bronzes de la collection Eumorfopoulos publiés par M. W. P. Yetts (I et II).” T’oung Pao 27.4/5 (1930): 359-406. 300230 KARLGREN, Bernhard. “Review of The George Eumorfopoulos Collection, Catalogue of the Chinese and Corean Bronzes, Sculpture, Jades, Jewellery and Miscellaneous Objects, CAST IN BRONZE AND STONE: BIBLIOGRAPHY | 231 Volume 1, Bronzes: Ritual and Other Vessels, Weapons, Etc. by Perceval Yetts.” Bulletin of the School Oriental Studies, University of London 6.1 (1930): 241-252. 1934 300240 KARLGREN, Bernhard. “Early Chinese Mirror Inscriptions.” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 6 (1934): 9-74. 300250* KARLGREN, Bernhard. “On the Date of the Piao-Bells.” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 6 (1934): 137-149. 1935 300260 Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935-6. London: Royal Acad- emy of Arts, [1935]. 300270 FERGUSON, John C. “Inscriptions on Bronzes.” Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 66 (1935): 65-72. 1936 300280 CREEL, Herrlee G. “Bronze Inscriptions of the Western Chou Dynasty as Historical Doc- uments.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 56 (1936): 335-349. 300290 CREEL, Herrlee G. “Notes on Professor Karlgren’s System for Dating Chinese Bronzes.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1936: 463-473. 300300 KARLGREN, Bernhard. “Yin and Chou in Chinese Bronzes.” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 8 (1936): 9-156. 300310 KARLGREN, Bernhard. “On the Script of the Chou Dynasty.” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 8 (1936): 157-178. 300320 LOEHR, Max. “Beiträge zur Chronologie der älteren chinesischen Bronzen.” Ostasiatische Zeitschrift 22 (1936): 3-41. 300330 YETTS, W. Perceval. “The Exhibition of Chinese Art. II. The Bronzes.” Burlington Maga- zine 68 (1936): 14-21. 1937 300340 KARLGREN, Bernhard. “The Dating of Chinese Bronzes.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic So- ciety 1937: 33-39. 300350 KARLGREN, Bernhard. “New Studies on Chinese Bronzes.” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 9 (1937): 9-117. 300360 YETTS, W. Perceval. “An Early Chou Bronze.” Burlington Magazine 1937.1: 47-77. 232 | CAST IN BRONZE AND STONE: BIBLIOGRAPHY 1939 300370 YETTS, W. Perceval. The Cull Chinese Bronzes. London: Courtauld Institute of Art, Uni- versity of London, 1939. 1940 300380 DRAKE, F. S. “An Inscribed Pottery Vessel of the Chow Dynasty.” Journal of the North- China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 71 (1940): 46-53. 1941 300390 KARLGREN, Bernhard. “Huai and Han.” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiqui- ties 13 (1941): 1-126. 1942 300400 LOEHR, Max. “Ein Sockel-Kuei aus der Zeit des K’ungtse.” Monumenta Serica 7 (1942): 227-234. 1944 300410 LOEHR, Max. “Bronzentexte der Chou-Zeit, Chou I” (Part 1). Sinologische Arbeiten 2 (1944): 30-91. 1945 300420 CH’EN Meng-chia. “Style of Chinese Bronzes.” Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America 1 (1945-46): 26-52, pls. 1-7. 300430* KARLGREN, Bernhard. “Some Weapons and Tools of the Yin Dynasty.” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 17 (1945): 101-144. 1946 300440 CH’EN Meng-chia. “The Greatness of Chou (ca. 1027-ca. 221 B.C.).” In Harley Farns- worth MacNAIR ed. China. Berkeley, Cal.: University of California Press, 1946. 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A Catalogue of the Chinese Bronzes in the Alfred F. Pillsbury Col- lection. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1952. 300560 KARLGREN, Bernhard. “Some New Bronzes in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities.” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 24 (1952): 11-25. 1953 300570 YANG Lien-sheng. “An Inscribed Han Mirror Discovered in Siberia.” T’oung Pao 42.3/4 (1953): 330-340. 300580 HENTZE, G. Carl. “Die Bedeutung der Inschrift Si tsě Sun.” Sinologica 4.3 (1955): 156-165. 1956 300590 WHITE, William Charles. Bronze Culture of Ancient China: An Archaeological Study of Bronze Objects from Northern Honan, Dating from about 1400 B.C.-771 B.C. Royal Ontario Museum, Division of Art & Archaeology: Museum Studies 5. 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