Porcelain sugar basin, 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 sugar basin 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

Sugar basin and cover, porcelain painted in colours and gold, part of a tea service given to Jane Burke, wife of Edmund Burke, on his election as M.P. for Bristol: English, Bristol, by Richard Champion's porcelain factory, c. 1774 - 1775

Porcelain sugar basin with a classical vase on each side in an oval medallion painted en grisaille and festoons of flowers painted in natural colours by William Stephens: English, Bristol, c. 1775

Parcel-gilt silver sugar basin engraved with Japanese-inspired decoration, part of a tea set: English, Birmingham, by Elkington and Co., hallmarked London, 1882 - 1883

Silver sugar basin, ribbed oval with two handles, 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

Silver sugar basin 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