Splendor & austerity: Islamic architectural ornament / Robert Hillenbrand --
The Tabriz hypothesis: the dragon & related floral carpets / John T. Wertime & Richard E. Wright --
Demons & deities: masks of the Himalayas / Thomas Murray --
A time of roses and pleasure: a Zoroastrian bridal costume / Patricia L. Baker --
Silk in Tibet: luxury textiles in secular life and sacred art / Valrae Reynolds --
Dressing the temple: textile representations in the frescoes at Alchi / Roger Goepper --
Visions of Buddha lands: the Dunhuang caves / Roderick Whitfield --
A kind of alchemy: Persian ceramics of the twelth & thirteenth centuries / Alan Caiger-Smith --
White and blue: Chinese ceramics & the Albers effect / John Carswell --
From diversity to synthesis: changing roles of metalwork and decorative style in China / Colin Mackenzie.
