An Empire style mahogany desk, late 19th century, with maker's stamp for a. Britz, Paris, with a deep brown tooled leather top and matching extension slides, a central, drawer with a cast winged maiden escutcheon flanked by smaller drawers, faux, to the reverse, raised on square section tapering legs with proud lion's head, mounts terminating in paw feet, restrained neoclassical trims throughout, height 76 cm, length 150 cm, width 75 cm