Box lid, for a wedding box containing gifts for the couple, circular, gilded and lacquered wood: Indonesia, Sumatra, South Sumatra Province, Palembang, late 19th century

One of two shabti box lids in red and black glazed faience, each rectangular with an inscription naming the owner as Akh-menu: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, 18th - 19th Dynasty

One of two shabti box lids in red and black glazed faience, each rectangular with an inscription naming the owner as Akh-menu: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, 18th - 19th Dynasty

Lid for a shabti box in white painted wood, showing a picture of a ship in red, black and yellow: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna,Third Intermediate Period, probably 25th Dynasty, c. 747 - 656 BC

Lid for box of lacquered wood, inlaid: Japan, mid 19th century

Box lid of gold lacquered wood with shaped corners and rounded sides, decorated with chrysanthemum sprays against a bamboo fence, a nashiji interior, signed Yotokusai: Japan, 19th century

Box lid of silver, oblong, the top richly ornamented in openwork and a central gilt figure of Vishnu: Nepal

Flanged lid for a turuma or oval box of wood, secured by a sinnet cord passing through lugs: Polynesian, Tokelau (Union) Islands, late 19th to early 20th century

Lid of circular box for snuff, of animal hide (tandu) with simple incised decoration: Africa, West Africa, Northern Nigeria, Katsina, Hausa people

Lid of oblong box of dark brown wood, carved in relief with the figure of an Oba (king) holding ceremonial swords and mudfish in place of legs, symbols of kingship: West Africa, Nigeria, Edo State, Benin

Box lid of lunate shape, carved with stylised geometric patterns in wood with knotted cord fastening for box, to hold tukula pigment for cosmetic use: Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, Kuba people, early 20th century

Flat box lid of blackened dark wood with lower flange surmounted by a carved group representing a prostrate hunter firing his gun at a large sitting bird: Eastern Africa, Zambia, Lozi

Elliptical lid of a wooden box carved in high relief with figures, possibly Rangi and Papa, on a background of curvilinear patterns: New Zealand, Bay of Plenty area, Māori, early 19th century

Box lid of circular section made of copper alloy and decorated in painted enamels and foil with branches, fruits and seeds: USA, New York, by Louis Comfort Tiffany's enamelling department, c. 1900

Box lid of lemon-yellow plastic, part of a dressing set: possibly British, 1940s or 1950s

Lid for an earthenware box, with bird decoration, by Joan Faithfull, probably 20th century