Topic: Lalique-style figures / sculpture

[Jay]

The piece is signed in block caps and I still can't read it to place this item.
F.Seifert?
F Se Feat?

[Anne]

Franz Seifert was an Austrian sculptor known for his bronze pieces, Jay - he died in 1951. I wonder if this was somehow connected with him - perhaps a copy or a tribute or some such?  He also designed furniture apparently, so might have dabbled in glass too?  It's an avenue worth exploring if you can.

[Jay]

Yes Anne, I saw that too, but still no sign of any glass items in his name (only bronzes and a single ceramic item), and I don't really see any similarities in style either. F Seifert pieces are all (?) classical.

There is a gallery called petrseifert.com which sells figurative glass items so I dropped them an enquiry, just in case.

[chopin-liszt]

Bronzes are cast, I don't see why somebody who casts bronze might not have cast glass.  
The faces in your sculpture are quite classical and both the bronzes and your glass sculpture show the musculature of the human form beautifully.

I am aware of other artists who did play with glass just a little, while their main opus was in sculpture or architecture or metalwork.
Bjorn Weckstrom, silversmith, Prof. GAF Laisner, architect - and of course Sam Herman works in paint and architecture as well as glass. Those are just the ones I know of, off the top of my head.
Wreckstrom's and Laisner's glass output were tiny. (Says she, all chuffed and showing off, because I've got a fabulous bit by each of them.)

Also, many artists are perfectly capable of changing their style completely.

You are bringing some really interesting things here these days, Jay.

[Jay]

Nice reply from Petrseifert.com, but they're unable to help. It's a common surname in the Sudetenland and Bohemia, and he didn't recognise the name or style specifically although he deals in glass figureines.
Ah well! it was worth a long shot!

[Anne]

It might be a case of wait until one with a provenance turns up Jay.