One of a collection of Monart and Vasart glass from Perth - a vase of purplish-blue glass with bulbous body and long neck, with a paper disc on the bottom with Monart, Moncrieff, Scotland

Denticulated milk glazed earthenware vase made by Mrs Catherine MacLean, Bru, Barvas, Lewis, 1935

Alabaster or Travertine vase from railway cutting near Grahamston, Falkirk

Portland Vase with the figures laid on, on one side and showing the cracking of applied figures due to problems with firing in the kiln, one of a collection of specimens illustrating the manufacture of Wedgwood pottery from Etruria, Staffordshire, given by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons in 1856

Green glazed earthenware vase with two handles, from Dunmore

Green glazed earthenware vase with oviform body, short neck, and lion masks on the shoulders, from Dunmore

Earthenware vase covered with coloured glazes poured onto it from the top, marked Allander and 1905, made at Hugh Allan's Pottery, Milngavie, 1905

Parcel-gilt silver vase or water pitcher with Japanese-inspired decoration: USA, New York, designed by Edward Chandler Moore and made by Tiffany and Company, 1878 - 1891

Longwy earthenware vase, with the mark of the fashionable Parisian store, Primavera: French, c. 1925

Vase of Blue John fluorite, large and two-handled, with Sienna marble lower moulding, probably carved by James Shore, Derbyshire, England, late 1840s

"Yin Yang Blue Vase", slab-formed vase of porcelain decorated in underglaze blue: Japan, Kyoto, by Kondo Takahiro, 1993 - 1994

Porcelain vase decorated in enamels with a design of cockerels: Japan, Imari, 18th century

Vase of quartz from a set of model implements for the 'Opening the Mouth Ceremony': Ancient Egyptian, said to come from Armant, Old Kingdom, 3rd-6th Dynasty, c.2686-2181 BC

Vase of quartz from a set of model implements for the Ceremony of Opening the Mouth: Ancient Egyptian, said to come from Armant, Old Kingdom, 3rd - 6th Dynasty, c.2686-2181 BC

Vase of black stone, from a set of model implements for the Ceremony of Opening the Mouth: Ancient Egyptian, said to come from Armant, Old Kingdom, 3rd-6th Dynasty, c.2686-2181 BC

Vase of black stone, from a set of model implements for the Ceremony of Opening the Mouth: Ancient Egyptian, said to come from Armant, Old Kingdom, 3rd-6th Dynasty, c.2686-2181 BC