A LOUIS XIV RED TORTOISESHELL AND BRASS BOULLE BUREAU MAZARIN in premier and contre-partie, the moulded rounded rectangular top inlaid with a berainesque design centred by Cupid and a companion beneath a canopy surmounted by Apollo within scrolling foliate arabesques with caryatids, equestrian figures, trophies of arms, owls and other mythical birds within a scrolling foliate border, above a central bow-fronted walnut-lined frieze drawer and hinged kneehole well, similarly inlaid with musicians, flanked by two sets of three bow-fronted drawers, the raised panelled sides similarly inlaid with musicians and animals beneath a canopy, on square tapering cabriole legs and ormolu cleft hoof sabots, restorations, minor losses, with wax coat of arms to the reverse, the legs later and adapted