A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT AND FLORAL MARQUETRY MEUBLE D'APPUI, of serpentine outline with a breche violette marble top above a drawer centred by a grotesque mask escutcheon, above a pair of panelled doors, with shelved interior and flanked to each side by female caryatids, each with a feathered head-dress terminating with an acanthus and shell-cast bracket, the shaped sides also inlaid, with shaped shell and foliate-cast apron, on shaped feet with scrolling acanthus sabots (the marble top broken and lacking a section to the right hand back corner, repairs),late 19th Century