AN ENGLISH ORMOLU-MOUNTED, EBONY, EBONISED, WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT WRITING-TABLE, with a canted rectangular top, inset with a tooled leather writing surface and inlaid with a Vitruvian-scrolled border with foliate sprays to the angles, the moulded frieze with arcaded demi-patera on a pounced ground and a mahogany-lined frieze drawer to each end, on foliate-inlaid and husk-garlanded Ionic capitals and fluted tapering legs with chandelles and splayed feet with brass castors, second half 19th Century