Octagonal silver tray for teapot MEQ 671, by Patrick Robertson, Edinburgh, 1789 - 1790

Shallow spoon tray with a flattened waved rim with chased decoration, by James Ker, Edinburgh, 1734 - 1735, part of a silver tea service made for Charles Hope, first Earl of Hopetoun

Silver tray, basically oval in shape, with semi-circular ends and sides, by James Ker, Edinburgh, 1735 - 1736, designed to hold a tea-urn and teapot

Silver tray, octagonal with four feet, inscribed 'The King's Prize to the Royal Company of Scottish Archers', won by Thomas Charles Hope on 21 July 1800, made by McHattie and Fenwick, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1800 - 1801

Large, engraved, rectangular silver tray with gadrooned rim and handles and four scroll feet, by McHattie and Fenwick, Edinburgh, 1804 -1805, signed 'Rt. Jeffery, Edin, May 52' in mirrored writing

Rectangular brass tray with ridged everted lip, hammered and chased in repousse, with a lobed circular panel in centre worked with a scene from the epic Persian romance of Laila and Majnun by Nizami: Middle East, Iran, possibly by Hussein, 19th century

Tray of limestone, part of a set of implements for the 'Opening of the Mouth' ceremony: Ancient Egyptian, said to come from Armant, Old Kingdom, 3rd - 6th Dynasty, c.2686-2181 BC

Terracotta offering tray, scutiform with raised edges except in the front: Ancient Egyptian, excavated at Denderah, Middle Kingdom

Terracotta offering tray, flat and rectangular in shape with raised edges and a square spout at the front: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Deir Rifa, Early Middle Kingdom

Tray (ochike), wood, square with raised edge and carved abstract designs: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu, 19th century

Square tray of carved wood: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu

Tray, square shape with raised lip, carved abstract designs: Japan, Hokkaido, Biratori, Ainu, 19th to early 20th century

Tray of porcelain with a red copper glaze, four-sided with a wavy edge, and decorated with detached floral motives: Japan, late 19th century

Tray of buff semi-porcelain with a crazed glaze, Ao-Kutani decorated in enamel colours with a mountain landscape, and with the mark of Kutani: Japan, Kutani, early 19th century

Tray of tortoiseshell, with design of landscape in lacquer: Japan, 19th century

Square tray of carved brown lacquer: China, 1800 - 1850