Chronos or Father Time, bearing an hour-glass (now missing), is perched on rocks and serves as a caryatid for a sun-dial disc with reed-gadrooned edge. The modelling closely relates to that of Coade's River God figure, noted in the catalogue of 1784, and can be attributed to the sculptor John Bacon (d.1799), with whom Mrs Eleanor Coade (d.1796) was in partnership (see A. Kelly, Mrs Coade's Stone, Worcs., 1990. p.62). The same Chronos figure is featured alongside the sarcophagus of Dame Anne Henniker (d.1793) in Rochester Cathedral and its design appears to have been mistakenly attributed to the sculptor Thomas Banks in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1794, part 1, p.410. (see A. Kelly, op cit p.250). Father Time attempting to destroy Sculpture featured as the frontispiece to the book of etchings of Coade's Gallery, which also includes this figure (see Kelly, op cit, p.66). Another sun-dial commissioned by the architect Sir John Soane (d.1837) is discussed by A. Kelly, Sir John Soane and Mrs Eleanor Coade, Apollo, 1989; while one purchased by James Baxter for his Turnham Green house in July 1818 was described as "A statue of Time with scythe and hour-glass complete with rustic plinth. 18 pounds. (A. Kelly, op cit, 1990, p.144).