Cup cover of porcelain inlaid with shell ornament: Japan, 1800-1862

Cup cover of painted enamel, with flowers and reserves: China, obtained in Tibet

Porcelain cup cover painted with a blue ground, medallions in sepia in classic style, and gilt borders: German, Dresden, Meissen, 1780 - 1816

Porcelain cup cover painted with blue grounds and gold ornament: German, Dresden, Meissen, early 19th century

Cover for a two-handled silver cup decorated with chased ornament and cut card work and engraved with a coat-of-arms and a crest: English, London, by Elizabeth Godfrey, 1743 - 1744

Cover for a silver cup: English, London, by Ramsden and Carr, 1910 - 1911

Cover for a silver-gilt cup with a cast silver finial in form of an armoured figure carrying a standard: German, early 17th century (cover) and mid 19th century (finial figure)

Silver-gilt cover for a cup, decorated with bosses and strapwork and surmounted by a finial of spiralling foliage in white silver: German, Hamburg, by Herman Keyser II, 1614 - 1628

Cup cover of blue jasper ware decorated in white relief with a circle of laurel leaves round the knob: English, Staffordshire, Etruria, by Wedgwood, c. 1790

Silver cover for cup given to Arthur Forbes, with bands of bright-cut thistles and an acanthus knop, by W. and P. Cunningham, Edinburgh, 1799

Cover for a silver two-handled cup, probably acquired by Charles, 6th Earl of Moray, shortly after he inherited the earldom in November 1700: possibly English, probably London, unmarked, c. 1700

Cover for a silver two-handled cup, probably acquired by Charles, 6th Earl of Moray, shortly after he inherited the earldom in November 1700: possibly English, probably London, unmarked, c. 1700

Silver cover for a silver two-handled cup: English, London, by William Lukin, c. 1730