AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND BURR WALNUT BUREAU PLAT, in the Louis XV style, with a rectangular top, with four shell-cast mounts and with a gilt-tooled red leather writing surface, the shaped frieze with a central drawer and flanked to each side by a small drawer and foliate-cast bracket, the reverse with three false drawers, each side centred by a female mask, on four shaped square-tapering legs, headed by pierced caryatid clasps on acanthus-cast claw sabots