A French purple-heart, amboyna and gilt-metal-mounted bombe bureau de dame, crossbanded in tulipwood, with a pierced three-quarter galleried top, the sloping fall enclosing a baize lined and a fitted interior and well with slide, on cabriole legs headed with foliate ornament trailing to sabots -- 30in. (76cm.) wide, 17in. (44cm.) deep, 36in. (92cm.) high.