A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOULLE AND EBONISED BUREAU PLAT, with a shaped rectangular top, inlaid with cut-brass tortoiseshell marquetry of scrolls, foliage, birds of paradise and insects, the centre with a cartouche-shaped panel depicting a horse-drawn chariot and driver, the frieze with a central drawer flanked by a pair of bearded satyr masks with a further drawer to each side, the reverse similarly inlaid, on four square-tapering shaped legs headed by cherub caryatid clasps with scrolled sabots (restorations), late 19th Century