A NORTH EUROPEAN TRANSITIONAL BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, decorated overall with courtly chinoiserie figures in island landscapes with birds, monkeys, bonsai trees and further flowers, the rounded rectangular top above a waved rectangular fall-front enclosing a red-japanned fitted interior with black leather-lined writing-surface, pigeon-holes and three drawers, above a further pair of doors enclosing a divided interior with removable coffre fort, the rounded angles flanked by decorated sides, above a waved apron and on splayed cabriole feet, probably German, second half 18th Century