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Console Table Depicting Chronos, or Father Time, c. 1700, painted and gilded wood, marble top

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Table · Italy

Console Table Depicting Chronos, or Father Time

Maker unknown · Italy · c. 1700

Father Time's scythe symbolizes natural cycles, like the harvest, and time's unstoppable flow that cuts down all living things.

— Cleveland Museum of Art, catalogue text

Medium: painted and gilded wood, marble top
Dimensions: Overall: 95.3 x 107.3 x 62.9 cm (37 1/2 x 42 1/4 x 24 3/4 in.)
Accession: 1968.31
Credit line: Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection by exchange
Culture: Italy, probably Rome, late 17th-early 18th Century

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