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Lot Essay
This pair of tables, with serpentined friezes Vitruvian wave-scrolled in the George II 'Roman' fashion, has feathered and scale-imbricated eagle legs. They relate to the work of the Dublin cabinet-makers, James Del Vecchio and his son, James. James junior was recorded from 1833 to 1851, however it is probable that he spent a number of years working for the family business before emerging on his own as a supplier of inventive high-quality giltwood for Dublin. The feet of the present tables relate in particular to those of a pier table, with eagle-headed monopodia, bearing the date 1831 and inscription of the Del Vecchios (E. T. Joy, English Furniture, 1800-1851, London, 1977, p. 77).
The rich imbrication and feathering feature on an early 18th Century armchair that formed part of the Brighton museum collection assembled in the early 19th Century by Sir George Donaldson (d. 1925) and later presented to the Victoria & Albert Museum (P. Macquoid, 'English Furniture in Sir George Donaldson's Collection - I', Country Life, 2 February 1918, p. 117, fig. 5 and R. Edwards, English Chairs, London, 1950, no. 59).
The rich imbrication and feathering feature on an early 18th Century armchair that formed part of the Brighton museum collection assembled in the early 19th Century by Sir George Donaldson (d. 1925) and later presented to the Victoria & Albert Museum (P. Macquoid, 'English Furniture in Sir George Donaldson's Collection - I', Country Life, 2 February 1918, p. 117, fig. 5 and R. Edwards, English Chairs, London, 1950, no. 59).