A SOUTH GERMAN BRASS-MOUNTED WALNUT AND CARELIAN-BIRCH BUREAU-CABINET, crossbanded overall in tulipwood, the scrolled waved cresting centred by a lambrequin and rockwork spray with husks and gadroons, above a moulded cornice and two shaped rectangular doors with two shaped bevelled mirrored plates, enclosing a fitted interior of drawers and pigeon-holes centred by two doors enclosing four further drawers between parcel-gilt demi-columns, the candle-slides above a hinged flap inlaid with a central ivory and ebony star within a scallop border and further arabesque scrolls, the fitted interior with six drawers and two secret drawers and six pigeon-holes, around a door inlaid with a stepped arcaded niche, the arc-en-arbalette base with two short and three long graduated drawers, the sides inlaid with similar banding, on later bun feet, the interior adapted, restorations, first half 18th Century