Note: Introduction / Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen , The principle of parsimony and the problem and the 'Mosul School of Metalwork' / Julian Raby , Metalwork and fourteenth-century Persian painting : a footnote / Teresa Fitzherbert , The die-engraver of Balkh (290/902-302/914) / Luke Treadwell , The ugly ducking of Iranian metalwork? : initial remarks on Qajar copper and copper-alloy objects in the National Museums of Scotland / Ulrike al-Khamis and Katherine Eremin , Gilding, inlay and the mobility of metallurgy : a case of fraud in medieval Kashmir / Lorenz Korn , Persians abroad : the case of the Jami' Masjid of Gulbarga / Robert Hillenbrand , An extraordinary Mamluk casket in the Fitzwilliam Museum / Rachel Ward , A Mamluk tray and its journey to the V&A / Tim Stanley , Arabic titles, well-wishes and a female saint : a Mamluk basin in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam / Luitgard Mols , A bronze tambourine player / Doris Behrens-Abouseif , The Fatimid bronze hoard of Tiberias / Elias Khamis , A group of round boxes from the metal hoard found in Caesarea / Ayala Lester , Islamic Embroideries from Egypt : shifts in taste, change in status / Ruth Barnes , Metalwork in Damascus at the end of the Ottoman period : an analysis of the Qāmūs al-Sinā'āt al-Shāmiyya / Marcus Milwright , A bronze pillar lampstand from Petralia Sottana, Sicily / Jeremy Johns , The metal mounts on Andalusi ivories : initial observations / Miriam Rosser-Owen , The marble spolia from the Badi' Palace in Marrakesh / Nadia Erzini and Stephen Vernoit , Glaze-decorated unglazed wares / Olivia Watson , Pearl cups like the moon : the Abbasid Reception of Chinese ceramics and the Belitung shipwreck / Jessica Hallett , Branding 'tradition' in contemporary tin-glaze pottery from Puebla / Farzaneh Pirouz-Moussavi , The lion, the hare and lustreware / Fahmida Suleman , Said el Sadr (1909-86) and Fatimid lustreware : a succession / Alan Caiger-Smith , Potter's trail : an Abu Zayd Ewer in the Saint Louis Art Musuem / Oya Pancaroğlu , From the workshops of New Julfa to the court of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich : an initial look at Armenian networks and the mobility of visual culture / Amy S. Landau , Modern palimpsests : what defines a fake? / Emilie Savage-Smith , 'Neo-calligraphism' and its different varieties in modern and contemporary Iranian art / Hamid Keshmirshekan , Meem 1958, by Siah Armajani / Venetia Porter