Silver lidded sauce boat with ivory loop handle and a chrysoprase cabochon set on the finial: English, Chipping Campden, designed and inspired by Charles Robert Ashbee and made by the Guild of Handicraft Ltd, hallmarked London, 1906 - 1907

Silver sauceboat of oval section with a raised, curved lip and handle from a set with a dish and ladle: Danish, Copenhagen, by Georg Jensen, imported to London between 1925 - 1929

Double-lipped silver sauce-boat engraved with a coat-of-arms and a crest: English, London, by Thomas Farren, 1732 - 1733

Sauce boat of electroplated nickel silver: Austrian, Vienna, designed by Josef Hoffmann 1906 - 1907 and probably made by Bachmann and Co., Vienna, for the Wiener Werkstätte

Sauce boat of parcel-gilt silver engraved with Japanese-inspired decoration: USA, Rhode Island, Providence, by Gorham Manufacturing Company, 1872

Porcelain sauce-boat moulded in the form of overlapping leaves with a coiled stalk for handle, and painted with insects: English, Worcester, 1750 - 1760

Silver sauce boat of oval form, set on a stepped pedestal foot with everted rim and cast double C-scroll handle, body engraved with crest and motto for the Earl of Stanhope, by David Downie, Edinburgh, 1783 - 1784

Earthenware sauce boat from the Annular service in April Green, designed by John Goodwin, Tom Wedgwood and Keith Murray for Rouard, Paris, in 1932 and manufactured by Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd, Etruria, 1939

Earthenware sauce boat stand from the Annular service in April Green, designed by John Goodwin, Tom Wedgwood and Keith Murray for Rouard, Paris, in 1932 and manufactured by Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd, Etruria, 1939