A NORTH EUROPEAN BRASS-MOUNTED BLACK AND GILT-JAPANNED CABINET-ON-STAND, the rectangular top above a pair of hinged doors decorated with courtly chinoiserie figures in a watery landscape with bonzai and further trees within foliate arabesque and trelliswork borders mounted with engraved escutcheons and angle-clasps, the sides with further pagoda and temple scenes and with carrying-handles, enclosing a fitted interior with twelve variously-sized drawers decorated with chinoiserie scenes of islands, temples, fishermen and courtly figures, the later stand decorated with foliate arabesque and trelliswork with panelled frieze and chamfered square legs headed by pierced fret angle brackets on spreading plinths, late 18th Century