Issue contents
Editorial
What a performance
Articles
Ornament as system: Chinese bird-and-flower design
by JESSICA RAWSON
Rediscovering a sixteenth-century Burgundian cabinet at the J. Paul Getty Museum
by JACK HINTON and ARLEN HEGINBOTHAM
An unknown cameo of James I and the Order of the Garter
by JŘRGEN HEIN
The contract for King Philip II’s tapestries of the ‘History of Noah’
by IAIN BUCHANAN
Shorter notice
Recent acquisitions of modern and contemporary furniture at the Victoria and Albert Museum
by GARETH WILLIAMS
Obituary
John Hayes (1929–2005)
by HUGH BELSEY
Letter to the editor
Rembrandt in Copenhagen
by LENE BŘGH RONBERG and JŘRGEN WADUM
Book reviews
Roman House – Renaissance Palaces. Inventing Antiquity in Fifteenth-Century Italy, G. Clarke
by LINDA PELLECCHIA
Venise et Rome 1500–1600. Deux écoles de peinture et leurs échanges, M. Hochmann
by BERNARD AIKEMA
Arredi e Ornamenti alla Corte di Roma 1560–1795, A. González-Palacios
by SIMON SWYNFEN JERVIS
Bernstein für Thron und Altar, ed. W. Seipel; Bernsteinkunst aus dem Grünen Gewölbe, J. Kappel
by MARJORIE TRUSTED
Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum, vol.I, P. Pal
by REKHA MORRIS
English Pottery 1620–1840, R. Hildyard
by J.V.G. MALLET
The Leeds Pottery 1770–1881, J.D. Griffin
by JULIA POOLE
Secesija u Hrvatskoj/Art Nouveau in Croatia, ed. A. Galic´ and M. Gasparovic´
by ELIZABETH CLEGG
Modernism in American Silver: 20th – Century Design, J. Stern
by CHRISTOPHER LONG
William Scott, N. Lynton
by ALAN BOWNESS
Exhibition reviews
Modernism
by TANYA HARROD
Ellsworth Kelly
by DAVID ANFAM
Albers and Moholy-Nagy
by PAUL OVERY
Michelangelo drawings
by ANTHONY HUGHES
The Master of the Furies
by MARJORIE TRUSTED
Georg Baselitz
by CHRISTIAN WEIKOP
Titian and portraiture
by PETER HUMFREY
Picasso in Antibes
by BEN LUKE
Papermaking and watercolour
by JESSICA FEATHER
Robert Rauschenberg
by CATHERINE CRAFT
In next month's issue
Sluter’s ‘Well of Moses’ in Dijon, part II
J.J. Couven’s designs for Struthers Castle, Fife
A portrait painted by Gianlorenzo Bernini
Thomas Eakins’s ‘The Agnew clinic’
Sources for paintings by Stuart Davis