A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT, in the Louis XVI style, the rectangular top inset with a tan-coloured leather writing surface, above the frieze fitted with three drawers, with foliate-cast handles and lock escutcheons, the underside of the handles stamped GVR 48, the sides each with a female mask, on cabriole legs headed by caryatid clasp mounts each with a feather headdress, on foliate-cast claw sabots,late 19th Century