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Time Clipping the Wings of Love
Made at: Derby Manufactory, working about 1750-1848 (Derbyshire, England)
English
about 1770
Object Place: Europe, England
Medium/Technique
Porcelain, colored enamels
Dimensions
34.29 cm (13 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George Washington Wales
Accession Number95.497
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionSoft-paste porcelain, colored enamels. Time seated on pedestal, flowered drapery thrown around his waist, holding Cupid on his knee; tinge of pink on wings of both. At his feet on gilded and colored rococo scrolled base a scythe and scepter (broken) an hour-glass, crown, globe and Cupid's quiver. Cupid's fingers and wing broken. Based on a painting by Sir Anthony Van Dyck, formerly in collection of The Duke of Marlborogugh at Blenheim. A similar but smaller example is in the Schreiber Collection, V&A Museum.
ProvenanceR.C. Winthrop. Mr. George Washington Wales; 1895, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George Washington Wales to the MFA.