SAPFM Museum Furniture Collection

Console Table Depicting Chronos, or Father Time

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

Date: c. 1700
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.)
Form: Table
Origin: Italy
Culture: Italy, probably Rome, late 17th-early 18th Century
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession: 1968.31
Credit line: Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection by exchange

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

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