Antique two-legged wooden miner's stool

Model stool of painted red wood in rectangular form: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, New Kingdom

Wooden bull-legged stool with woven linen string mesh seat: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Qurna, 2nd Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty, c.1585-1545 BC

Wooden stool with a semi-circular seat, hollowed above for comfort and cambered below: Ancient Egyptian, 18th - 19th Dynasty

Cedar wood stool-frame without webbing: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Qurna, 2nd Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty, c.1585-1545 BC

Cedar wood stool-frame without webbing: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Qurna, 2nd Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty, c.1585-1545 BC

Stool of wood, square seat frame morticed into four legs with rails (one restored), and restored seat originally of rush or papyrus cord: Ancient Egyptian, New Kingdom, c. 1550 - 1069 BC

U-shaped stone prestige stool supported on the back of a crouching jaguar: South America, Ecuador, Manabi, Manteño-Huancavilca period, c.500 to 1500 CE

Stool of pale wood, with curved seat, support of interlaced semicircles and rectangular base: West Africa, Ghana, Ashanti

Stool with curved seat on four supports and hollow central carved lattice work, support on rectangular base, wood :Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Asante, late 19th century

Carved wooden stool of three tiers, with four standing female figures on the base which support the second tier, upon which stand four men who support the top tier: West Africa, Nigeria, Western State, Northern Yoruba, early 20th century

No'oanga (chief's stool) of tamanu wood: Pacific Peoples, Polynesia, Cook Islands, Atiu, early 19th century

Man's circular stool or kabila of pale wood on three carved openwork feet, with leather carrying thong attached, carried by old and middle-aged men: Eastern Africa, Kenya, Kitui, Kamba people

Slightly curved oblong wooden stool on four legs, with carved linear ornament: Africa, Southern Africa, Zambia,Tanganyika Plateau, Awemba, late 19th century

Circular wooden stool with wire repair on seat, curved back and open lattice-work base, carved geometric patterns on seat back and serpent carved on back of stool from top to base: Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanganyika Plateau, Bemba people, late 19th century

Carved wooden chief's stool in the form of a squatting woman supporting a flat seat above her head with both hands: Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, Luba people, late 19th to early 20th century