拍品 293
293
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A PARIS (NAST) ORMOLU-MOUNTED BISCUIT CLOCK

細節
A PARIS (NAST) ORMOLU-MOUNTED BISCUIT CLOCK
'L'AMOUR FAIT PASSER LE TEMPS'
CIRCA 1819, INSCRIBED NAST

Modelled as Cronus with his arm draped around the circular clock face sitting in a boat being paddled by Cupid, within a gilt-bronze band chased with stiff leaf tips and inset into a wood base raised on ball feet (minute chip to bow and stern, some rivets missing, minute chip to enamel face restored, key missing)--16¾in. (42.5cm.) wide

拍品專文

An example of the present model was exhibited to great acclaim by the Brothers Nast at a trade fair held at the Louvre in 1819. It was illustrated as plate 37 in Annales de l'industrie of that year, published by Le Normand et Moléon. Cf. Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Porcelain of Paris 1770-1850, New York, 1972, fig. 76, p. 108