A French green-decorated and parcel-gilt writing desk, decorated overall with painted floral swags and musical trophies, the top with a three-quarter baluster gallery, above a sloping fall painted with a romantic scene and enclosing a fitted interior, with a frieze drawer flanked by rosettes, on gadrooned and fluted tapering legs joined by stretchers, on toupie feet, 19th century -- 33½in. (85cm.) wide.