Tea bowl of white glazed porcelain, decorated with a black painted design, in use in the 1770s at the house of Macleod of Raasay when Boswell and Dr Johnson stayed there

Tea bowl of white glazed porcelain, decorated with a black painted design, in use in the 1770s at the house of Macleod of Raasay when Boswell and Dr Johnson stayed there

Tea bowl of white glazed porcelain, decorated with a black painted design, in use in the 1770s at the house of Macleod of Raasay when Boswell and Dr Johnson stayed there

Teabowl of stoneware, with a dark brown glaze: Japan, Kyoto, 19th century

Tea bowl of Soma stoneware with a speckled grey and brown glaze, and indented with Soma badge: Japan, Iwaki Province, Nagamura, 18th century

Tea bowl of Raku stoneware on a low foot with a dark brown glaze, an impressed mark: Japan, late 19th century

Tea bowl of brown stoneware, hemispherical on a raised foot, with a Namako glaze of olive-green speckled yellow: Japan, late 19th century

Tea bowl of pale brown stoneware with a slightly crackled salmon-coloured glaze, cylindrical on a foot: Japan, Nagato province, Hagi ware, 19th century

Tea bowl (chawan) of pottery with crackled glaze, and decorated with eight lozenges filled with enamel coloured flowers: Japan, Kyoto, late 19th century

Teabowl of white porcelain (famille or), decorated with plum blossom and birds: Japan, Imari ware, probably 17th century

Teabowl, or chawan, of buff stoneware with a crackled greenish grey glaze, showing four figures in a landscape and with itokiri mark on the base: Japan, mid 19th century

Tea bowl of white stoneware on a low foot, with a reddish brown glaze splashed with black, with an itokiri mark and an impressed Raku mark: Japan, 19th century

Tea bowl or chawan of crazed porcelain with a white glaze, the lower portion engraved with oblique lines and the rim and foot repaired with gold lacquer: Japan, 19th century

Bowl of cream earthenware or stoneware with a finely crackled glaze, with a river and a maple branch and marked 'Ninsei': Japan, Yamashiro Province, Kyoto, 18th - early 19th century

Tea bowl of hard greyish cream earthenware or stoneware, circular with an unglaze foot ring, with a lobster and a sprig of bamboo in enamel colours and gilt: Japan, Kyushu, 1850s - 1860s

Tea bowl of grey earthenware or stoneware with a crackled glaze, decorated with a chestnut in underglaze blue and gilt: Japan, Yokohama, by Miyagawa Hanzan (Makuzu Kozan II), 1900 - 1940