The pedimented and originally mirror-fronted bureau-cabinet is designed in the George II 'Palladian' style, and decorated in the manner of early 18th Century cabinets, such as that imported by the East India Company Director Sir Matthew Decker, Bt. (d. 1749) and sold in these Rooms 6 July 1989, lot 88. It is richly veneered with a mosaic of ivory-inlaid panels adapted from antique 17th Century Indian scriptor-chests. Its exotic and picturesque style, like contemporary Indian Palampore hangings, was then considered appropriate for bedroom apartments decorated in the Indian Chinese manner. On the bureau section, Indians are shown enjoying a repast in a paradisical garden, and elsewhere Europeans lounge in chairs beside flower-vases. They are surrounded by a Mughal hunt on elephants, recalling early 17th Century scenes of Prince Salim, later Emperor Jahangir's shikarnameh. Giant elephant-bearing simurghs (phoenix) hover overhead, while perched in flowering shrubs, and their spear-bearing hunters are relegated to the bureau's interior. These hunt figures all feature on a 17th Century cabinet, that is likely to have been manufactured at Sind (see: S. Ray and M. Spink, Treasures of the Court, London 1994, no. 20), while some of the drawer figures, as well as the door's flowered meander appear in the decoration of a 17th Cenury Gujarat scriptor at the Victoria & Albert Museum (see: S. Digby, 'The Mother-of-Pearl Overlaid Furniture of Gujarat', Facets of Indian Art, London, 1986, p. 221)