Teapot and cover of fine cream earthenware, painted in enamel colours and gold with figure subjects, and diaper pattern below: Japan, Satsuma, 19th century

Domed teapot cover of gilt metal with silver lotus ornament and gilt auspicious symbols, everyday use: China, Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa, Tibetan, late 19th century

Porcelain teapot 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

Circular cover with ebonised knap for a silver teapot said to have been owned by Marshal Blucher: Danish, Copenhagen, by Marcus Pipgros, 1726

Cover for an octagonal teapot of red stoneware: German, Saxony, Meissen, by Bottger, c. 1710

Teapot cover of unglazed cream porcelain: English, by Nicholas Homoky, 1987

Porcelain teapot cover from a tea set moulded in the form of shells and painted in pink: Irish, Fermanagh, Belleek, late 19th to early 20th century

Cover surmounted by a hare for a salt-glazed stoneware teapot: English, Staffordshire, c. 1730

Cover for a salt-glazed stoneware teapot of classical design: English, Staffordshire, c. 1750

Cover for a salt-glazed stoneware teapot moulded in relief with pecten shell and oak sprays and painted with flower sprays and oak leaves: English, Staffordshire, c. 1750

Cover for a salt-glazed stoneware teapot painted in enamel colours with a bust of Frederick the Great: English, Staffordshire, c. 1758 - 1765

Cover for a teapot of cane-coloured stoneware moulded in the form of bamboo: English, Staffordshire, Etruria, by Josiah Wedgwood, 1768 - 1780

Cover ornamented with an applied flower for a teapot of cream-glazed earthenware painted with Chinese landscapes, figures, buildings and flowers: English, Leeds, late 18th century

Cover for a teapot of cream earthenware painted with orange tree and busts of William V (?) of Orange and Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia (?): English, Leeds, probably decorated in Holland, c. 1775

Wemyss ware teapot and cover, hand painted with two black cockerels with red combs crowing at the sunrise and inscribed 'Many Are Called But Few Rise Early', by Robert Heron and Son, Fife Pottery, Kirkcaldy, c. 1883 - 1930

Cover for a teapot of drab-glazed earthenware with rustic handle and spout and vine bas-reliefs on body in cream: English, Staffordshire, by Astbury, 1720 - 1750