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    "localId": "143929",
    "label": "Console Table Depicting Chronos, or Father Time",
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    "id": "143929",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Console Table Depicting Chronos, or Father Time",
    "description": "The marble tabletop is supported by a gilded wooden figure of Father Time (or “Chronos”) adorned with his typical attributes of wings, a scythe, and an hourglass. The metaphorical weight of his eternal role is emphasized as he bears the heavy stone slab on his shoulders while reaching up to ensure its balance.",
    "date": "c. 1700",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.31",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Furniture and woodwork"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 95.3 x 107.3 x 62.9 cm (37 1/2 x 42 1/4 x 24 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, probably Rome, late 17th-early 18th Century"
    ],
    "accession": "1968.31"
}

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    "tec": "painted and gilded wood, marble top",
    "tombstone": "Console Table Depicting Chronos, or Father Time, c. 1700. Italy, probably Rome, late 17th-early 18th Century. Painted and gilded wood, marble top; overall: 95.3 x 107.3 x 62.9 cm (37 1/2 x 42 1/4 x 24 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection by exchange, 1968.31",
    "collection": "Furniture",
    "didYouKnow": "Father Time’s scythe symbolizes natural cycles, like the harvest, and time's unstoppable flow that cuts down all living things.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Gabriel P. Weisberg, and H. W. Janson. <em>Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 41"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Piña, Leslie A. <em>Furniture in History, 3000 B.C.-2000 A.D</em>. 2nd ed. Boston: Prentice Hall, 2010.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 7"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection by exchange",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-16 14:23:45.025000",
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