A pair of black and gilt Chinese lacquer and japanned encoignures Louis XVI, late 18th century, the mounts later

each with a moulded veined grey and white marble top with canted corners above cupboard doors enclosing two shelves, the doors decorated with blossoms, chrysanthemums, birds and butterflies, within a foliate scroll border,with fluted stiles surmounted by a later gilt-bronze mount with a scrolled bracket surmounted by a lion mask and oak leaf swag, above a shaped apron on bracket feet; some refreshment to japanning