The quintessential armchair of the short-lived Charles X style circa 1820-25. Chairs such as these are found in the Charles X room of the Paris Museum of Decorative Arts. This specific armchair is surprisingly published in Denise Ledoux-Lebarde’s celebrated dictionary of 19th century furniture makers, and it is signed by Jean-François Pochard (1804-1846). Pochard is a fairly unknown maker, whose works (a sofa) nevertheless are conserved in the National Museum of the Château de Versailles, the Grand Trianon, the apartment of Madame Adélaïde.

This chair is made of mottled maple, with fine incrustations of darker amaranth wood, upholstered with a contemporary multicolored damask patterned silk. Scrolling neoclassical foliage motifs typical of this romantic style adorn the front and the back of the chair, as well as the sides of the “frogs thigh/cuisse de grenouille” shaped legs.

Traces of a makers mark are visible inside the chair.

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