Carved wooden toddy-bowl with a hunting and drinking scene, from Caithness

Bowl of thin bronze, possibly the hangman's ladle of Dumfries, Scotland, 18th century

Bowl of black glass, moulded with three legs and two handles, and banded by three rills

Bowl of steatite, oblong with animal-head handle and ornamented with incised lines, from Newton of Auchingoul, Inverkeithny, Banffshire, Scotland

Bronze hanging bowl escutcheon, from the Roman site at Newstead

Bronze hanging bowl escutcheon, from the Roman site at Newstead

Bronze hanging bowl escutcheon, from the Roman site at Newstead

Bronze hanging bowl escutcheon, from the Roman site at Newstead

Two sherds of a Roman brown glass tubular rimmed bowl, from the Iron Age broch of Torwoodlee, Scottish Borders

Small fragment of a shallow silver bowl, with animals separated by profile masks, from Traprain Law

Aluminium forging - a bowl with green finish, one of a group of specimens illustrating the manufacture of aluminium

Glass bowl for a Kenwood Chef food mixer designed by Kenneth Grange and manufactured by Kenwood Ltd, England, c. 1960

Earthenware bowl printed in underglaze blue with a hunting scene and borders of flowers, made at the Verreville factory of John Geddes, Glasgow, c. 1825

Kitchen dairy bowl of sgraffito redware with a cream slip, decorated with peacocks, flags and a crown, inscribed Mrs Alexr. Mather Arbroath 1865, and probably made by Dryleys Pottery, Montrose

Small bowl of cream glazed earthenware, overpainted in russet, blue and green, inscribed Waterloo, and probably made by Rathbone's Pottery, Portobello, c. 1815 - 1820

Stoneware bowl, covered in a Klein blue glaze with resist decoration of banding and triangular forms: Turkish, by Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye, Paris, France, 1990