Variety and ambiguity: what do we mean by a "sculpture collection"? / Malcolm Baker
Part 1. Sculpture in the Kunstkammer : contexts, formation, and dispersal. 1. Sculpture collecting and the Kunstkammer / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
2. The collecting of small bronze sculptures in late Renaissance Italy: the Canonici collection / Jeremy Warren
3. Shifting perceptions and changing frameworks: the case of Francis van Bossuit and the place of small-scale sculpture in ivory in the sculpture collection / Malcolm Baker
Part 2. Garden sculptures as collections. 4. Gentlemen prefer bronze: garden sculpture and sculpture gardens in Britain (1720-1860) / Julius Bryant
5. The sculpture gardens of Versailles, Marly, and Dresden: magnificence and its limits / Betsy Rosasco
Part 3. The sculpture gallery and dedicated spaces for sculpture. 6. The 'Gallerie du S.r Girardon Sculpteur Ordinaire du Roy' / Anne-Lise Desmas
7. Porcelain as sculpture: medium, materiality, and the categories of eighteenth-century collecting / Michael Yonan
8. Art and nature: the country house sculpture gallery in the post-Napoleonic period / Alison Yarrington
Part 4. The changing place of sculpture in the public museum. 9. The public art gallery as arena for modern sculpture / Alex Potts
10. Displaying deceit: Alceo Dossena's tomb of Maria Catharina Sabello at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Andrew McClellan and Marietta Cambareri
11. The legacy of William Valentiner in shaping the display and collecting of European sculpture in American museums,1900-Present: case studies / Alan Phipps Darr.