Easy Chair
date: label: date made
content: 18th - 19th century
notes: label: Description
content: "Make-do" easy or wing chairframe constructed from an earlier 18th-century banister-back side chair by expanding sides of seat and adding crest, lower back slat, cross member at front, and large sides panels (pine) with S-curve front forming arms and wings, edged with wide ben strips of wood; traces of upholstery (tacks, fiber and segments of cloth); iron nails; red paint over black.
label: Description
content: The side chair--with a flaring rectangular seat of woven-splint, vertical-splat back, truned uprights with square rear legs and plain box stretcher with a raised front member--was later modified into an easy chair by adding the aboce-mentioned pieces after leveling off the top, front and upper rear of back uprights.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New England
topic: label: Subject
content: Furniture
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0386.01
label: accession number
content: 1994.0386
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0386.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Easy Chair
label: Object Name
content: chair, easy
label: Other Terms
content: Easy Chair; Furniture
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 116 cm x 71 cm x 40 cm; 45 11/16 in x 27 15/16 in x 15 3/4 in