Issue contents
Editorial
Cleaning early pictures: seeking the surface
Articles
The two Parisian mirror sconces at Knole: their date and makers
by MICHÈLE BIMBENET-PRIVAT
'In My Lady's Chamber: the provenance of the Parisian mirror sconces at Knole
by GORDON GLANVILLE
The 'Battle of Pavia' and the tapestry collection of Don Carlos: new documentation
by IAIN BUCHANAN
Shorter notices
Designs by Giovanni Vambré il Giovane for a reliquary casket for S. Frediano in Lucca
by FLAVIO BOGGI
Dogali, January 1887: an engraved sapphire by Giorgio Antonio Girardet for a Castellani brooch
by LUCIA PIRZIO-BIROLI STEFANELLI
Book reviews
Jean Prévost, Le Maître de Moulins, Albert Châtelet with J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer
Form and Decoration. Innovation in the Decorative Arts, 1470–1870, Peter Thornton
Musei e Gallerie di Milano, Museo d'Arti Applicate, Le Ceramiche, Tomo Primo, ed. Claudio Salsi et al.
Italian Renaissance Ceramics. The Howard I. and Janet L. Stein Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Wendy M. Watson
Chelsea Porcelain, Elizabeth Adams
French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum: the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, Clare Le Corbeiller and Linda H. Roth
The Architectural Drawings of Magdalen College, Oxford: a Catalogue, Roger White with Robin Darwall-Smith
Exhibition reviews
LONDON: Performance art
OXFORD: Bolognese drawings
BRUGES: Jan van Eyck, Early Netherlandish Painting and Southern Europe
AMSTERDAM: Dutch rococo
GOUDA: Stained-glass windows
ORLÉANS and TOULOUSE: Lubin Baugin
BRESCIA: Foppa
MADRID: Georges Braque
NEW YORK: Whitney Biennial
NEW YORK and CHIGAGO: Gerhard Richter
HOUSTON and LONDON: Earth and Fire