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Figure group comprising Time or Chronos, grey bearded winged man, seated on a block of balustraded masonry holding on his knee a struggling Cupid, whose right wing he is about to cut with a pair of gilt metal shears. The lower part of Chronos's body is swathed in a gilt bordered white robe, painted with sprays of flowers in red, olive, purple and gold, Cupid naked except for a puce sash over the loins. The domed base is edged with strapwork and moulded with symbols of mortality, a broken column, a skull, a globe and a wreathed crown, together with Time's scyth and lantern and Cupid's quiver, realistically enamelled
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