A brass and amaranth-inlaid mahogany bureau à cylindre Directoire, circa 1790

with a rectangular mottled green marble inset top above three short drawers, the roll-top lifting to reveal a pull-out leather inset top, pigeon holes and three short drawers and three dummy drawers, with a pull-out leather inset flap, the lower section with a frieze drawer flanked by a drawer on the right enclosing a coffre-fort, the other side with two short drawers on reeded legs terminating in paw feet, the whole inlaid with brass and amaranth stringing, with inventory label '776' in black ink