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Lot 1048
Wurtel, Paris, an alabaster and bronze mantel clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half-hours on a bell, with the backplate stamped with the names Piefort Horloger à Paris and Wurtel à Paris along with the serial number 634, the round white enamel dial having blue Roman hour numerals, decorative blued steel hands and signed Wurtel, Rue Vivienne 38 & 49, Paris, with a decorative bronze bezel set within an alabaster case, with bronze female-head corner mounts and decorative scroll feet, the case surmounted by a bronze figure depicting a seated winged-female gazing to the sky, height 58.5cm.* Biography Ferdinand Wurtel is known to have premises in the Galerie Vivienne from circa 1840 until at least 1850. By 1860 the business was et Piefort, with the latter becoming his successor after this date. Piefort himself is recorded as working at Vielle du Temple in circa 1850 and again in 1870 having taken on the Wurtel business.
Lot 1044
Valogne à Paris, a bronze and ormolu Gothic mantel clock: the eight-day duration movement having silk-suspension striking the hours and half-hours on a bell, with an outside countwheel, the backplate stamped with the serial number 811 which is repeated to the brass pendulum bob, the round silvered dial decorated with engine-turned engraved decoration and having black Roman numerals, blued steel moon hands and signed Valogne à Paris, the Gothic style bronze case with florally decorated mounts and spires, with an ormolu seated female figure stroking a dog within an alcove to the front, with the top surmounted by a tower with an ormolu pagoda with flag, the base with further applied bronze mounts and standing on ormolu feet with cherub heads to the centre of each, height 62cm (not including flag)* Biography Valogne was a well-known retailer and supplier of clocks working in both London and Paris in the mid-19th century, supplying amongst others the firm of Dent in London. In 1877 Valogne, described as an horloger à Londres, was introduced to the Chambre Syndicale de l'Horlogerie Paris by Alfred Drocourt as a possible member adherent, a time that Drocourt was also supplying Dent with carriage clocks.* Notes See Leigh Extence; Henri Jacot, An Exhibition of Carriage Clocks; Catalogue 2013.
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