Cherubim
Christian art bases its treatment of the Cherubim upon the vision recorded in Ezekiel, chapter 10. Cherubim are pictured with four wings, “full of eyes,” with the “likeness of the hands of a man” under their wings. Their color is sapphire blue, and usually they stand upon winged wheels, and are shown holding an opened scroll, or a book. In earlier Christian art they are pictured with great dignity, but in the days of the later painters, and in modern times, they are shown as chubby infants, with-out bodies, with two wings each, and without the wheels, books and scrolls of the early painters. They are led by Jophiel. Many an ancient gravestone contains a carving of the winged head of a cherub at its top. (Webber, 1927)
Figures with wings over the mercy-seat in the Jewish temple, later members of the second of the Nine Orders of Angels with attributes of the knowledge and contemplation of Divine things. Thus representations of an adult figure with wings. (Curl & Wilson, 2016)