Cover for a shrine-shaped shabti box of wood, surmounted by a recumbent falcon with disk and plumes: Ancient Egyptian, Late Period, c. 4th century BC

Circular box cover of lacquered wood, decorated with the Three Friends of Winter (pine saplings, bamboo and plum blossom): Japan, Kyoto, 19th century

Box cover of ivory, oval, inlaid in relief with flowers and foliage in tinted mother-of-pearl: Japan, 19th century

Cover of a rectangular box of carved steatite, carved in low relief with pine, bamboo and plum, the Three Friends of Winter: China

Box cover of semi-porcelain with a thin cream glaze outside and a chocolate glaze inside, circular: Korea

Box cover of silver, wrought en repousse with a running quadruped and floral ornament: Asia, South East Asia, Thailand or Laos

Box cover of silver, wrought en repousse with a bird and floral ornament: Asia, South East Asia, Thailand or Laos

Circular box cover of brass with silver inlay, the whole surface covered with chased and inlaid interlacing ornament: North Africa or Middle East

Oval box cover, of birch bark, decorated with floral patterns in dyed porcupine quillwork: North America, Canada, possible Micma'q, late 19th century

Cover set with paintings of coast scenes and shipping by L.N. van Blarenberghe, for a circular box of gold in three colours and silver: French, Paris, Mathieu Coiny, 1774 - 1775

Cover for a circular gold bonbonniere with a circular medallion of opalescent glass painted with a landscape in blue: French, Paris, by Pierre Claude Pottiers, 1780 - 1781

Cover bearing a circular medallion chased with a quiver and foliage on a machine-engraved ground, for a circular bonbonniere in three colour gold: French, Paris, maker's mark "JLR", 1785.

Cover with an oval medallion of flowers in encrusted enamels for a circular gold snuffbox inlaid with various stones: German, Dresden, by Johann Christian Neuber, c. 1785 - 1790

Circular gold bonbonniere cover set with a circular enamel plaque painted in colours: possibly Geneva, late 18th century

Cover for a cardboard box covered with linen embroidered with glass beads: English or French, late 17th century

Circular bonbonierre box cover of tortoise-shell mounted in gold and ornamented in nail pique or cloute d'or decoration in two colour gold, and with a miniature signed 'S. Roch/1794', probably Sampson Towgood Roch(e): French, Paris, 1784 - 1785, miniature 1794