A TOLE GILT-JAPANNED TRIPOD TABLE by M. Ballin, with circular moulded tip-up top decorated overall with chinoiserie scenes of courtly gentleman in a watery landscape with pagodas and a figure fishing, within a scrolling arabesque border with foliate panels, ebonised(?) tripod base with turned baluster stem and splayed cabriole legs, decorated overall with gilt floral motifs, the base of the top signed M. Ballin/.../..., second quarter 19th Century