Porcelain milk jug, part of a tea service painted in enamel colours and gilt with portraits of the Bonaparte family and associates or military trophies: French, Sèvres, painted by Jules-Eugène Humbert, c. 1860

Porcelain milk jug cover, part of a tea service painted in enamel colours and gilt with portraits of the Bonaparte family and associates or military trophies: French, Sèvres, painted by Jules-Eugène Humbert, c. 1860

Porcelain milk jug from a tea set designed by Walter Gropius and Louis A. McMillen of The Architects Collaborative (TAC) and Katherine de Sousa in 1968: German, Bavaria, Selb, Rosenthal Factory, 1977

Silver-gilt cream or milk jug from the nécessaire de voyage or travelling service assembled by Martin-Guillaume Biennais for Napoleon's sister, the Princess Pauline Borghese, possibly at the time of her marriage to Prince Camillo Borghese in 1803: French, Paris, by Marie-Joseph-Gabriel Genu and Martin-Guillaume Biennais, hallmarked 1798 - 1809, bequeathed to Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton, in 1825

Silver-gilt milk jug with scroll handle and fluted spout, engraved with cinquefoils and crosses as heraldic devices of William Beckford of Fonthill Abbey: English, London, by Philip Rundell, 1819 - 1820

Melon-shaped silver-gilt milk jug with fluted sides and mat surface: English, London, by John Page, 1817 - 1818

Silver milk jug, ribbed oval, part of a silver tea service presented to James Taylor, founder of the Ceylon tea and cinchona industries: English, Sheffield, by Mappin and Webb, 1891 - 1892

Milk jug, silver, hammer raised to ovoid form, set on flange base, with 'C' scroll silver handle, and flaring open pouring lip: Scottish, Edinburgh, by Ian R. Davidson, 1952

Silver milk jug with deep band of chased Celtic style interlace comprising intertwined gripping beasts enclosing a plain panel engraved with a gothic D, part of a teaset in the Celtic Festival style: Scottish, Glasgow, Edwards and Sons, 1917

Jug, silver, embossed with figurative motifs, part of a tea set: West Asia, Iran, Qajar, 1884 - 1885