A GERMAN EBONY, PEWTER, BRASS AND BROWN AND RED TORTOISESHELL-INLAID BUREAU BRISEE, the hinged rectangular top decorated with foliate scrolls and strapwork and espagnolette and satyr masks and with eagles supporting husk trails on acanthus scrolls with strapwork borders, lifting to reveal an interior with similar decoration and three drawers, with hinged fall-front simulated as three drawers above four drawers flanking a central deep drawer each inlaid with foliate scrolls and divided by flower-filled guilloche, the sides inlaid with a circular medallion within acanthus scrolls and strapwork, on S-scroll legs inlaid with stylised foliage, with giltwood capitals and joined by double Y-shaped stretchers, on acanthus-carved bun feet, the central front drawer originally hinged to fall, last quarter 17th Century, restorations to the stretchers, the red tortoiseshell inlay of the top probably replaced