One of a pair of silver mugs by John Baillie, Inverness, c. 1740

One of a pair of mugs with the arms and motto of the Dalrymple family, made by William Littler's factory at West Pans in East Lothian for Sir David Dalrymple's farm at Over Hailes, c. 1770

Porcelain tanker, in Japanese Imari style, decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze red and gold enamels with flowers and fish, with a diaper border at the top: China, export ware, Qing Dynasty, 1730 - 1740 AD

Mug of porcelain, painted in coloured enamels with scenes of a family on a diaper ground: China, Qing Dynasty, late 18th century AD

Mug for zoo or rice beer, of bamboo, circular, upright, expanding from base to rim, and with a handle of plaited cane: Assam, near Kohima, Viswema village, Angami Nag

Mug of glazed and painted earthenware, decorated with floral designs in blue on a white ground: Morocco, Tangier

Mug cover of glazed and painted earthenware, decorated with floral designs in blue on a white ground: Morocco, Tangier

Mug of siliceous glazed earthenware, painted with isolated floral patterns in blue, green and thick red pigment on a white ground, with a guilloche border in dark green: Turkey, 16th - 17th century

Small mug of carved slatestone: North America, Canada, Northwest Coast, Haida, from the shores of British Columbia

Mug of brown slip-coated and salt-glazed stoneware with cherubs in relief in medallions, base inscribed 'JACOB STAVWER': German, Creussen, 1620 - 1650

Salt-glazed stoneware mug painted in colours and gilt, with arms in medallion and date '1652': German, Creussen, dated 1652

Wemyss ware mug, Earlshall pattern, hand painted with a rookery above seven white rabbits, by Robert Heron and Son, Fife Pottery, Kirkcaldy, c. 1905 - c. 1915

Porcelain mug decorated with a transfer print in black of the arms of the Honourable Society of Bucks and inscribed "UNANIMITY IS THE STRENGTH OF THE SOCIETY", "WE OBEY", "FREEDOM WITH INNOCENCE", and "INDUSTRY PRODUCETH WEALTH": English, printed in Liverpool by John Sadler, c. 1757

Porcelain mug decorated with transfer prints of The Fortune Teller after the French painter Watteau and A View of the Canal and of the Gothick Towere in the Garden of His Grace the Duke of Argyll at Whitton, adapted from an engraving: English, Worcester Porcelain Company, 1770s

Porcelain mug decorated with a transfer print in black with King Frederick the Great of Prussia being crowed with a wreath by a putto, dated 1757, and Fame blowing a trumpet, military trophies and pennant recording nine of the king's victories: English, Worcester Porcelain Company, 1758 - 1760

Mug of reddish-brown buff stoneware painted in colours, with three incised lines and horizontal bands: English, Norfolk, Diss, by Robin Welch, 1976