Mazarin desk in red tortoiseshell marquetry and engraved brass (all sides), opening to seven drawers and a window, the marquetry top decorated with dancers, chimeras, mascarons, palmettes, squirrels and birds in a foliate surround, resting on sheathed legs joined four by four by braces (restorations); (accidents, notably lifts). Louis XIV period. H.77cm, W.98cm, D.61cm