A 19thC French Monastery Sculpted High Relief Plaster Frieze Depicting Father Time c.1870 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage survives from the middle of

survives from the middle of the nineteenth century and from the studio of the American artist Franklin Watkins (1894-1972)

the rear sabre legs extended

and beautifully designed it to create a work of art

in turquoise peacock blue flecked with gold sequins spelling out the latin “Honi soit qui mal y pense” and terminating in a devil’s tail paste stone buckle

A 19thC French Monastery Sculpted High Relief Plaster Frieze Depicting Father Time c.1870 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage survives from the middle ofOrigin: French Period: Mid Late 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 Height: 25 Width: 36 Depth: 7 (all at extremities) The large and wonderfully decorative and well sculpted plaster frieze fragment in high relief depicting Father Time or Chronos, as the typical robed, winged and bearded elderly and sage looking man, clutching an hourglass and scythe, amongst a fluid ground, surviving from a monastery or church ground from nineteenth century