PROLOGUE Stories Painted on Porcelain		xiii
1 THE OBSCURE CHILD		1	(76)
Marketplace		3	(9)
Stories Told Through Windows		12	(6)
Looking		18	(10)
Meadow		28	(5)
Sitting for Schoonmaker		33	(12)
Girl with Wildflowers		45	(9)
Half a Door		54	(10)
Van den Meer's Household		64	(13)
2 THE IMP-RIDDLED HOUSE		77	(62)
The Small Room of Outside		79	(19)
Small Oils		98	(7)
The Masterpiece		105	(4)
Rue, Sage, Thyme, and Temper		109	(8)
Reception		117	(6)
Virginal		123	(6)
Simples		129	(10)
3 THE GIRL OF ASHES		139	(92)
Flowers for the Dead		141	(11)
Plague and Zuarantine		152	(8)
The Nowhere Windmill		160	(11)
Invitations		171	(13)
A Fair Light on a Full Table		184	(12)
Wind and Tide		196	(8)
The Girl of Ashes		204	(7)
Finery		211	(10)
Spine and Chamber		221	(5)
Collapses		226	(5)
4 THE GALLERY OF GOD'S MISTAKES		231	(70)
Campaigns		233	(8)
The Gallery of God's Mistakes		241	(12)
Cinderella		253	(4)
Van Stolk and van Antum		257	(9)
The Night Before the Ball		266	(15)
The Changeling		281	(3)
Small Magic		284	(8)
Tulip and Turnips		292	(9)
5 THE BALL		301	(59)
The Medici Ball		303	(19)
Clarissa of Aragon		322	(12)
Midnight		334	(11)
A Most Unholy Night		345	(6)
The Second Slipper		351	(9)
EPILOGUE Stories Written in Oils		360