A PAIR OF IRISH WILLIAM IV GILTWOOD CANED ARMCHAIRS, IN THE MANNER OF JAMES DEL VECCHIO, CIRCA 1835

Sotheby's New York, 21-22 October 1999, Lot 438

Replica Shoes 's New York, 17 October 2015, lot 645

Del Vecchio was a firm of carvers and gilders, looking glass sellers and manufacturers of composition ornament active in Dublin from 1797 to c.1860, run by Giacomo (James) Del Vecchio and his son James Jr, immigrants from Moltrasio on Lake Como in Northern Italy. They formed part of the thriving furniture trade in early 19th-century Dublin along with Mack Williams and Gibton, Robert Strahan, George Gillington and Joshua Kearney. James Del Vecchio Sr. later established an outpost of the family firm in New York.

A pier table bearing a Del Vecchio label sold Replica Shoes 's London, 8 December 1972, lot 160, employs eagle monopodia supports with massive claw feet similar to those on the armrest supports of the offered chairs, whilst comparable spiral-fluted legs appear on a pair of sofas attributed to Del Vecchio formerly at Doneraile Court, Co. Cork, sold Christie's London, 7 May 2009, lot 33. A pier glass and console table with the label of James Del Vecchio Jr. is illustrated in The Knight of Glin and J. Peill, Irish Furniture, (New Haven and London 2007), p. 194, fig. 260.