Bureau-cabinet, Vizagapatam, c.1720-30 (ivory, teak, ebony & tortoiseshell)

The double-domed cornice above a pair of arched doors inlaid and finely engraved with flowering trees, perching birds and animal groups enclosing a fitted interior with a row of nine arched pigeon holes above three short drawers, a central cabinet enclosing seven ivory and tortoiseshell-mounted drawers flanked on each side by vertical divisions and with five further drawers below all similarly inlaid and engraved, the hinged fall front inlaid with a central vase issuing scrolling foliage and animals enclosing a fitted interior with eight arched pigeon holes and seven ivory and tortoiseshell-mounted drawers around a central door enclosing six similar graduated small drawers above three small, two short and two graduated long drawers with brass bail handles, the drawers all inlaid with scrolling foliage, the sides also with flowering trees and animals on ogee bracket feet