A Chinese Export black-lacquered and gilt-chinoiserie-decorated bonheur du jour, with allover profuse scrolling foliage, figures and pagodas in foliate landscapes, the raised super structure with pierced broken scroll cabinet, with central foliate cresting above pair of oval panelled doors enclosing interior of drawers and pigeon holes with central engraved oval portrait, the lower section with hinged baize lined fall and well above frieze drawer on baluster-turned legs and reeded bun feet joined by pierced concave stretchers, second quarter 19th century -- 30in. (76cm.) wide, 20in. (51cm.) deep, 66in. (168cm.) high