Roll-top writing desk, oak frame with pitch pine facing on front of drawers and cupboard, inlaid with coloured woods in the gothic style; conventional bureau form, with the lower half comprising, back, a kneehole closed with boarded folding doors and containing pigeon holes; and front, arcaded side walls formed of a two dark close-grained columns, with round bases and grooved and beaded capitals, standing on a horizontal plank of wood with a tripartite foot, and closed by a pointed arch; the whole supporting the upper half formed of two drawers and above a cylinder roll top, with column-fronted pigeon holes within; flat top with a notched and chamfered guard rail; the whole carved with chamfered edges, and the roll top with semi-circles; coloured wood inlay in ebony, mahogany etc - two segment-shaped side panels inlaid with a foliate circle enclosing set square and compasses, and behind, two square panels with an oak leaf roundel with the monogram IS (or IPS); further geometric inlay principally of chevrons (around lower cupboard and on writing slope), roundels both single and in groups of four, trefoils (on lower half), diamonds, crosses etc; ornate metalwork fittings, brass (with traces of gilding), twisted rope pattern drawer handles set with a cabachon-cut malachite (centre) and ruby glass (ends) and with floral plates painted with cold colours; pair of turquoise-headed handles cameo-cut cut with heads to inner drawers, horizontal iron straps on folding cupboard doors painted with imitation gemstones in red, green, blue etc, and originally silvered with gothic patterning; an ebonised pen rest and a square glass inkbottle with liner to either fitted internal drawer.