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 many flowers to include several chrysanthemums

the life size human skull used for phrenological and medical study is cast in plaster

the rear sabre legs extended

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