"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.
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.
