A RUSSIAN NEO-CLASSIC BIRCH DESK, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, with a pediment-form cornice over three frieze drawers above three recessed arched panelled doors and an arched open niche, between disengaged colonettes over a rectangular top above a frieze drawer over a kneehole flanked by pedestals, each fitted with slides over four drawers, on block feet (restoration)--73 in. high, 75 in. wide, 35½ in. deep