{"data": {"id": 143929, "accession_number": "1968.31", "share_license_status": "CC0", "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", "current_location": null, "title": "Console Table Depicting Chronos, or Father Time", "creation_date": "c. 1700", "creation_date_earliest": 1695, "creation_date_latest": 1705, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Italy, probably Rome, late 17th-early 18th Century"], "technique": "painted and gilded wood, marble top", "support_materials": [], "department": "Decorative Art and Design", "collection": "Furniture", "type": "Furniture and woodwork", "measurements": "Overall: 95.3 x 107.3 x 62.9 cm (37 1/2 x 42 1/4 x 24 3/4 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.953, "height_inch": 37, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5, "width": 1.073, "width_inch": 42, "width_inch_fraction": 0.25, "depth": 0.629, "depth_inch": 24, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.75}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 301285, "title": "Year in Review for 1968", "description": "<i>Year in Review for 1968</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).", "opening_date": "1969-01-29T05:00:00"}, {"id": 302145, "title": "Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture", "description": "<i>Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).", "opening_date": "1975-09-24T04:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "J. J. Klejman, New York", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "until 1968", "sortorder": null}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1968\u2013present", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Father Time\u2019s scythe symbolizes natural cycles, like the harvest, and time's unstoppable flow that cuts down all living things.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The marble tabletop is supported by a gilded wooden figure of Father Time (or \u201cChronos\u201d) adorned with his typical attributes of wings, a scythe, and an hourglass. 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