A Nast biscuit mantle clock group 'Saturne conduit par l'amour' early 19th century

modelled as Saturn sitting on a clinker-built riveted boat, supporting a clock on his right leg, Cupid rowing at the front, on an ormolu-mounted black marble base (minor firing cracks to two corners of the biscuit base)

minor firing cracks to two corners of the biscuit base
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A similar clock model from the mobilier national was in the Palais de l'Elysée until 1813 where it was described as ' representant Saturne tenant sa faulx dorée dans une barque, conduit par un amour, tenant une rame doré, avec son ancre ... la dite portée sur un socle en bois d'acajou ... sans nom d'auteur', see M.-F. Dupuy-Baylet, Pendules du mobilier national 1800-1870, Dijon, 2006, p.49-50.
The iconography of this clock was perhaps inspired by the song 'Le voyage de l'Amour et du Temps' composed during the Revolution by Joseph-Alexandre de Ségur, and is specifically referring to the line 'l'Amour fait passe le temps'. The model was very popular and its production continued even after the factory was taken over by J.H. Nast's son in 1817. In 1819 the model was exhibited in 'L'Exposition des Produits de l'industrie' and illustrated in the Annales d'Industrie.