λ  An 18th century French boulle marquetry bureau Mazarin

λ  An 18th century French boulle marquetry bureau Mazarin, decorated with red tortoiseshell and cut-brass with panels of scrolling foliage strapwork, banded with prince's wood, the top with a brass moulded edge with applied leaf corners, above an arrangement of seven drawers around a central cupboard, on ebonised cabriole legs, 81cm high, 117.8cm wide, 70.2cm deep.