AN ENGLISH GILT METAL-MOUNTED SATINWOOD AND CROSS-BANDED BUREAU PLAT, of Louis XVI style, the top with a pierced three-quarter gallery and rounded corners, the frieze inset with a vitruvian scroll to all four sides, the ends each with a mahogany-lined drawer, on fluted tapering legs with foliate chandelles, headed by engine-turned curved rectangular panels, one drawer pencilled 1546, both brass locks stamped SECURE, late 19th Century