Ceres

Datec. 1800

DimensionsOverall: 23 3/4 × 18 × 9 in. (60.3 × 45.7 × 22.9 cm)

Object numberN0540.1948

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextSimeon Skillen Jr. came from a well known family of ship figurehead carriers in the Boston and Salem areas. Ceres was probably used as garden sculpture or interior adornment of one of the wealthy ship merchants along the Massachusetts coast.

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