Mazarin desk in engraved brass marquetry on a blackened wood base, decorated with dancers, musicians and fowl in a foliage and floral scroll motif, opening to seven drawers and a window, resting on eight sheathed legs joined four by four by two braces; (restorations, notably to the marquetry) Louis XIV period H 79×W 119×D 66cm Provenance: Former collection of Hubert de Saint-Senoch, then former collection of Charles Hathaway, his sale in Monaco on 4 and 6 December 1992, lot 46.