Goddess Pomona, Missouri

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website, the plaza was built in 1922 as “America’s first shopping center” and contains 14 blocks of shops, artworks and fountains. “Only Rome has more fountains than Kansas City,” the website brags. Who knew?

As for the figure in question, “down the street in a quiet courtyard sits an original bronze of Pomona by Italian sculptor Donatello Gabrielli,” the center’s website continues.

According to the plaque at its base, “From his original model only two figures have ever been made — this bronze casting and a marble carving that stands in the king’s palace, Bangkok, Thailand.”

Wow!

Anyone want to visit Thailand and send me a photo?

Shapton, by the way, sees a marble Goddess daily in her display case in the Library. That one is more modestly attired than the one in rollickin’ Kansas City.

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