A North European brass-mounted secrétaire à abattant late 18th / early 19th century

with a three-quarter galleried mottled grey and white marble top, above a frieze drawer and fall-front enclosing a fitted interior with columns and three drawers with receptacles for writing implements, with a mirrored backboard, above one long and two short drawers, on fluted columnar legs joined by a shaped shelf, on toupie feet, the whole with brass banding; restorations