Monuments of the Deccan / George Michell with photographs by Antonio Martelli -- The Royal murals of Rajasthan / Joachim Bautze -- The Message of misfortune : words and images in Saʻdi's Gulistan / Robert Hillenbrand -- Farangi Saz : the impact of Europe on Safavid painting / Sheila Canby -- The Chiselled surface : Chinese lacquer and Islamic design / Yolande Crowe -- China for Europe : export porcelain of the Qing Dynasty / Colin D. Sheaf -- The Progress of Rama / Thierry Zephir -- Ritual & splendor : the gold of Indonesia / Kalpana Kartik -- A fearful symmetry : the Mughal red-ground 'Grotesque' carpets / Steven J. Cohen -- Meibutsu-Gire : textiles in the Japanese tea ceremony / Susan-Marie Best -- The emperor's treasure house : seventh and eighth century textiles in the Shōsōin / Alan Kennedy -- Silk of the Northern Song / Shelagh Vainker -- All excellent qualities... : Chinese jade from the Neolithic to the Han / Carol Michaelson.
