A DUTCH MAHOGANY BUREAU BOOKCASE with waved moulded cornice centred by a ribbon-tied oval portrait medallion of a Roman emperor, above a pair of shaped glazed doors with similar medallions enclosing two serpentine-fronted adjustable shelves, the counterbalanced curved fallfront with pull-out writing surface with red velvet-lined adjustable reading slope, enclosing a fitted interior of pigeon-holes and serpentine drawers around a central tambour flanked by composite pilasters, the lower section with three bombé-fronted serpentine drawers with canted angles, above a waved apron and claw-and-ball feet, 19th Century, with printed depository label to reverse MAPLE'S DEPOSITORY/Hill.../29