'Alden’ Sperm Whale Sculpture

"Alden" 

A tribute to Alden Spears (1739-1803), a whale-man, fisherman and entrepreneur from Cape Cod, who engraved the first known object of pictorial scrimshaw on a sperm whale panbone, signed and dated 1766.  

Hand sculpted and painted porcelain

length:  12.5 inches

width:   8.25 inches

height:  3.5 inches

weight:  4.5 pounds