Column Base and Capital
ca. 1810–30
Medium
Cast brass, mercury, gold
Dimensions
a: H. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); Diam. 2 in. (5.1 cm) b: Diam. 3 in. (7.6 cm)
Classification
Column Base and Capital
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Edward Hunting Smith, 1968
Accession Number
Inst.68.8.6a, b
About the Artist
Henry Kellam Hancock · 1816–1851
Henry Kellam Hancock (1788–1854) was a prominent American cabinetmaker based in Boston, Massachusetts, where he contributed significantly to the city's early nineteenth-century furniture trade. Son of Captain Belcher Hancock and Ann "Nancy" Susan Ackers, he entered the profession as a chairmaker around 1816 and transitioned to cabinetmaking by 1826, maintaining workshops on Orange Street from abou...