A BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED BUREAU CABINET decorated overall with chinoiserie scenes, with arched moulded cornice centred by a scallop shell flanked by shrubs, above two arched mirrored doors each with later plate, the reverse painted with figures holding flags, the fitted interior with doors and pigeonholes around a central cupboard with double door flanked by later-decorated columns, above a pair of candle slides, the base with hinged flap decorated, with a procession with an elephant, enclosing a fitted interior with slide, above two short and two graduated long drawers, on later bracket feet, part early 18th Century, possibly originally higher, restorations