Peter Perring Thoms: A dissertation on the ancient Chinese vases of the Shang dynasty, from 1743 to 1496, B. C., illustrated with forty-two Chinese wood engravings (London: published by the author […] and sold by James Gilbert 1851)
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The work is based on the Xuanhe bogu tulu 宣和博古圖 and was published earlier in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Socity of Great Britain and Ireland (1834) under the title „Description of Ancient Chinese Vases; with Inscriptions illustrative of the History of the Shang Dynasty of Chinese Sovereigns, who reigned from about 1756 to 1112 BC.* Translated from the Original Work, entitled Po-koo-too, by Peter Perring thoms, Esq.“
- [Part 1] JRAS 1 (1834) 57-86
> JSTOR - [Part 2] JRAS 1 (1834) 213-233
> JSTOR - [Part 3] JRAS 2 (1835) 166-171
> JSTOR - [Part 4] JRAS 2 (1835I 276-287
> JSTOR
For a review see The Chinese Repository Vol XX (1851) 489.