Private sedan chair, handsomely ornamented and painted, with coat of arms on the back, made in Edinburgh or London, c. 1780, and used by Professor Alexander Hamilton, Professor of Midwifery, University of Edinburgh, and his son and successor, Professor James Hamilton, especially in their night practice, c. 1780 - 1839

Chair, painted silver, with purple velvet upholstery, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for the Room de Luxe at the Willow Tea Rooms, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, 1903.

Ladder-back chair of ash, with rectangular legs, and probably a replacement seat, from Caithness, 19th century

Child's chair possibly of birch, crude and heavily woodwormed with 'J & J.K.' burned on the underside of seat splat, from Achlipster, Caithness, probably 19th century

Wooden chair with a square seat frame with (restored) woven seat, and a short back continuous with rear legs: Ancient Egyptian, 18th - 19th Dynasty, c. 1550-1186 BC

Chair of rosewood with cane seat, brass inlay, anthemion carved centre rail and concave legs: English, c. 1810

One of a pair of mahogany chairs, Chippendale style, carved in openwork pattern based on a double C-scroll, with scrolled top-rail and cabriole front legs with knees carved with acanthus motive: English, mid 18th century

One of a pair of mahogany chairs, Chippendale style, carved in openwork pattern based on a double C-scroll, with scrolled top-rail and cabriole front legs with knees carved with acanthus motive: English, mid 18th century

Chair of carved ebony, the back containing seven small spiral balusters, the rails enriched with leafy scrolls, and the legs and lower rails turned in spirals: Indian, Coromandel Coast, 1680-1700

Orkney Chair, a chair of Japanese oak with a straw back: Scottish, John Davidson, 1985

Chair of chromium-plated, tubular steel: German, probably Gebrüder Thonet, c. 1930, designed by Mies van der Rohe, 1927

Seat for a European chair, Fijian sinnet in black and buff, with square wood frame: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, early 20th century

Chair seat cover tapestry woven with tulips on a ground of light brown with a wavy trellis in dark brown: Scottish, Edinburgh, by the Edinburgh Tapestry Co., designed by Cecil Beaton, 1948

Vernacular style chair built on a stool principle using oak, ash, larch and pine, with a back rail and arms, from Shetland

Heraldic hall chair painted with the arms of Alexander Maconochie-Welwood, Lord Meadowbank, after a design by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder: Scottish, c. 1835

Heraldic hall chair painted with the arms of Alexander Maconochie-Welwood, Lord Meadowbank, after a design by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder: Scottish, c. 1835