Silver sugar bowl with two opposing applied handles, by R. and W. Sorley, Glasgow, 1892, part of a four piece thistle-shaped tea-set

Part of a sugar bowl from a porcelain teaset, possibly by Verreville, 19th century

Part of a sugar bowl from a porcelain teaset, possibly by Verreville, 19th century

Porcelain sugar bowl, with cover, 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

Stainless steel sugar bowl, part of a 'Campden' coffee service designed by Robert Welch, Chipping Campden, 1957: English, Bloxwich, made by J. and J. Wiggin from 1958 and marketed under the name 'Old Hall'

Vase-shaped silver-gilt sugar bowl, decorated with sphinxes seated on plinths on flat circular base, with detachable cover with finial representing the eagle of the god Zeus, part of a tea service made for the Emperor Napoleon I and his second wife, the Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria: French, Paris, by Martin-Guillaume Biennais, 1810, purchased by Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton, in 1830

Milk glazed earthenware sugar bowl with a serrated rim and foot, the glaze is in a flaky condition, made by Mrs Catherine MacLean, Bru, Barvas, Lewis, 1935

Silver sugar bowl on an openwork foot, chased with scrolls and flowers: English, London, by Samuel Taylor, 1762 - 1763

Silver sugar bowl cover chased with scrolls and flowers: English, London, by Samuel Taylor, 1762 - 1763

Silver-gilt sugar bowl with everted rim and two loop ropework handles, engraved with a chequered pattern containing the Hamilton cinquefoil and the Latimer cross as heraldic devices of William Beckford of Fonthill Abbey: English, London, by Philip Rundell, 1819

Sugar bowl and cover, mat silver-gilt, melon-shaped with fluted sides: English, London, by John Page, 1817 - 1818

Sugar bowl of opaque white pressed glass in the form of shells: English, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle Flint Glassworks, by W.H. Heppell and Co., design registered 6th December 1881, glass c. 1881 - 1884, or Georg Davidson & Co., who acquired the moulds after Heppell's closed in the mid 1880s

Sugar bowl of cream earthenware painted in blues and brown with concentric bands and lines: English, Staffordshire, Burslem, by Newport Pottery Co. Ltd, designed by Clarice Cliff, c. 1935

Sugar bowl, silver, hammer raised to ovoid form, set on flange base with two opposed 'C' scroll silver handles: Scottish, Edinburgh, by Ian R. Davidson, 1952

Sugar bowl cover, silver, hammer raised, domed with silver finial and cut-out for sugar spoon: Scottish, Edinburgh, by Ian R. Davidson, 1952

Silver sugar bowl on a domed, pedestal foot, by James Ker, Edinburgh, 1731 - 1732