Silver lidded tankard with bands of plain moulding at the rim, middle and above the base where there is a wide band of cut card ornament, by Robert Bruce, Edinburgh, 1697 - 1698

Dome lidded silver tankard with simple rib moulding round the body, thumb-piece in the form of an acanthus leaf and an S-shaped handle, by Alexander Forbes, Edinburgh, 1705 - 1706

Silver tankard with a thumb-piece in the shape of a lion, by James Cockburn, Edinburgh, 1685 - 1686, one of the only known pair of 17th century Scottish tankards

Tankard of stonepaste fritware, tall cylindrical shape with flat angular handle, decorated with a succession of tall red tulips and blue and green serrated saz leaves with smaller red and blue flowers in between: Turkey, Iznik, Ottoman, late 10th century AH/late 16th century AD

Tin-enamelled earthenware tankard with a loop handle, hinged pewter lid and polychrome decoration of a man holding a dancing bear and groups of flowering plants: German, 2nd half of the 18th century

Silver tankard by Colin Mackenzie, Edinburgh, 1709 - 1710, engraved on the body opposite the handle with the armorial of Macpherson Grant of Ballindalloch beneath the motto 'Ense Et Animo'

Ground quartz and clay paste tankard painted black under a transparent turquoise alkaline glaze and showing a band of arabesque foliage roundels: Syria, Rakka type, late 12th - early 13th century

Porcelain tankard painted in polychrome enamel colours and gilt with European and Chinese figures and a hound in a landscape with a large tree: German, Saxony, Meissen, c. 1740

Porcelain tankard painted in polychrome enamel colours and gilt with Chinese figures in a landscape with a bridge: German, Saxony, Meissen, c. 1740

Tankard of parcel-gilt silver decorated with Narcissus gazing at his reflection in the water almost certainly based on a print adapting Virgil Solis’ woodcut of Narcissus published in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1563) and Reusner’s Emblemata (1581), with other subjects in repoussé, and cover surmounted by a cast swan: Polish, Danzig (Gdansk), by Benedict Clausen, c. 1700

Silver-gilt peg-tankard with an engraved cover, three lion-and-ball feet and a scroll handle with lion-and-ball thumb-piece and baroque cartouche: Norwegian, Bergen, by Jan Reimers, c. 1665, with later inscription dated 1686

Stoneware tankard with base rim of pewter, decorated with figures of the Apostles and ornamental borders in relief in enamel colours: German, Franconia (modern Bavaria), Creussen, c. 1680

Pewter cover for a stoneware tankard, engraved with a partially erased German poem, the final line in Greek: German, unidentified mark, c. 1680

Stoneware tankard in two tints of brown enamel ornamented with cartouches containing classical busts and inscribed 'H. WOLFFGANG PIRKNER MALLER 1614', with engraved pewter cover: German, Creussen, dated 1614

Stoneware tankard (Planetenkrug) decorated with figures of gods and inscribed 'DRINCK UND IS GOTT NICHT VERGIS' - 'Drink and eat. Do not forget God' around neck: German, Creussen, 1670 - 1700

Stoneware tankard (Birnenkrug) decorated with figure subject: German, Annaberg, late 17th century