Huge Early Derby Porcelain Figure Group Depicting Father Time Clipping Cupids Wings. 35cm Sculpture. Circa 1770

Huge Early Derby Porcelain Figure Grout depicting Father Time Clipping Cupid Wings. 35cm Sculpture. Circa 1770.

Huge sculpture, measuring 35cm in height. Larger than the 33cm version in the Fitzwilliam Museum (possibly the largest piece recorded).

Modelled as a bearded winged old man subduing the struggling infant Cupid in order to clip back his wings, a scythe, an hour glass and a globe at his feet, the rocaille base moulded also with a skull and with a crown.

Soft-paste porcelain Time Clipping the Wings of Love, slip-cast, lead-glazed, and painted in a multitude of vibrant colours (blues, turquoise-green, green, purple, brown, black enamels, and gilt). The unglazed underside has obvious patch marks and a central circular ventilation hole. The group is on a high, heavily scrolled base picked out in turquoise-green and gold. Winged and bearded Time is seated on a tree trunk with his right leg forward, the foot resting on a sheaf of arrows. He holds Cupid over his left knee with his left hand and is about to clip Cupid's wing (pair of small shears held in his right hand - missing). Time wears a white robe decorated with small blue, red and green circular flower motifs. Cupid has a purple drape. On the base to the viewer's right there is a crown, a sceptre, and an hourglass, and on the left, a world map decorated globe.

Excellent condition. Correct patches to base, and authentic for the early pieces.

Height = 35cm.

* The photo with two figures side-by-side showing the significant scale and size difference between the 35cm version (this sales particulars) and the smaller 20cm version.