Chinese metalwork reading list

On Bronze

Bagley, Robert, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. Washington DC, 1987. ISBN. 067 4805 259

Falkenhausen, Lothar von, Suspended Music: Chime Bells in the Culture of Bronze Age China. Berkeley, 1994. ISBN. 052 007 3789

Fong, Wen (ed), The Great Bronze Age of China. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1980.
Exhibition catalogue. ISBN. 0 87099 226 0

Kerr, Rose, Later Chinese Bronzes. V&A, 1990. ISBN. 0 19 585149 8

Ma, Chengyuan, Ancient Chinese Bronzes. Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN. 0 19 583795 9

Mowry, Robert, China's Renaissance in Bronze - The Robert H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900. Phoenix Art Museum, 1993. ISBN. 0910 407 290

National Museum of History  Bronze Incense Burners: Collections from Mr Yang Ping-Chen. Taipei, 1996. ISBN. 957 006 7071

National Palace Museum, Illustrated Catalogue of Ancient Bronze Weaponry in the National Palace Museum. Taipei, 1995. ISBN. 957 562 1999

Pope, J.P. et al, The Freer Chinese Bronzes. Washington DC, 1967 and 1969. Two volumes

Rawson, Jessica, Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual. British Museum, London, 1987. ISBN. 071 411 4391

Rawson, Jessica, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. Washington DC, 1990. Two volumes. ISBN. 0 674 95070 4

Rawson, J & Bunker, E  Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes. Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 1990. ISBN. 962 7496 01 4

Shanghai Museum, Ancient Bronze Mirrors from the Shanghai Museum. Shanghai, 2005. ISBN. 780 725 0410

Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Art of the Houma Foundry. Princeton, 1996. ISBN. 069 1011 370

Whitfield, Roderick (ed), The Problem of Meaning in Early Chinese Bronzes. Colloquies on Art & Archaeology in Asia No.15. Percival David Foundation, London, 1993. ISBN. 072 860 2032

On Cloisonne

Brinker, H & Lutz, A Chinese Cloisonne: The Pierre Uldry Collection. Asia Society Gallery, New York, 1987. ISBN. 1 870076 12 5

Garner, Harry, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonne Enamels. Faber & Faber, London, 1962

Jenyns, R Soame & Watson, William, Chinese Art: The Minor Arts. Second edition, Phaidon, Oxford, 1980. Two volumes

National Palace Museum, Enamel Ware in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties. Taipei, 1999. ISBN. 957 562 343 6

On Gold & Silver & Others

Brinker, H & Francois, L, Chinese Gold & Silver: The Pierre Uldry Collection. Rietberg Museum, Zurich, 1994

Bunker, Emma et al, Adornment for the Body and Soul: Ancient Chinese Ornaments from the Mengdiexuan Collection. Hong Kong, 1999. ISBN. 962 8038 15 x

Crosby Forbes, H.A. et al  Chinese Export Silver 1785 to 1885. Museum of American China Trade, Milton Mass, 1975

Engel, Erik, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection. Ulricehamn, 1999. ISBN. 919 7136 735

Kwan, Simon, Chinese Silver - the Muwen Tang Collection. Hong Kong, 2004. ISBN. 988 9720 639

Michaelson, Carol, Gilded Dragon. British Museum, London, 1999. ISBN. 0 7141 1489 8

Singer, Paul, Early Chinese Gold and Silver. China House Gallery, New York, 1971
    
Wagner, Donald B, Iron and Steel in Ancient China. Leiden, 1996. ISBN. 900 4096 329

White, Julia & Bunker, Emma  Adornment for Eternity: Status and Rank in Chinese Ornament. Hong Kong, 1994. ISBN. 962 3210 396