Topic: Unidentified Signature on Studio Glass (3 examples)

[Jay]

Does anybody recognise the scrawl on these pieces. They are dated 1988-92,
I can't even work out what letters they are!

Grumpy remark!
There is a certain conceit revealed by artists with an illegible signature!!

[Jay]

Here's what they look like

[chopin-liszt]

 
I don't think any of them read Louis le Loup, but I only have one example to compare them with. His signature is illegible and not dissimilar, but I can make out Loup at the end, because I know it's there.

[Anne Tique]

+1
Leloup signs not cursive, as far as I have seen and I don't think I've seen this shape in his work.

[chopin-liszt]

I don't know much of le Loup's work, the piece I have is "Encrustation Noir", but these pieces don't really look much like it. It doesn't have that shiney iridesence for a start. 
I'll have to get you an image of the mark on my le Loup piece, Anne, because it looks cursive to me. The p at the end goes down below the rest of it.

But it was the only signature I know of which does look anything like this.

[chopin-liszt]

Having found my vase and taken a pic, it's not quite as similar as I'd first though.
I don't look at signatures very often. They're on the bottom. 

[Anne Tique]

I don't look at signatures very often. They're on the bottom. 

I know you can never judge a piece on a signature, but sometimes it does help, you know 

[Jay]

So here are some more Leloupe signatures for  the record. But I don't think they help answer the question.

[Anne Tique]

It's annoying, obviously a self-respecting artist, who, instead of signing underneath, decides to sign on top of the foot, with production numbers and date and all, but nobody can read it  . I can't think of anybody else at the moment who used to do that besides Schneider and sub-marks, but of course we're in a whole different period here.

Not that it means anything, but I've seen these pieces for sale in France and Germany too, same style, same siggie.

[Jay]

Actually that's a great help. Anne.
The owner wants to know whether they are by a 'known-artist'. If they're floating around markets unidentified then I think we're close to answering that question.

Plus: you walked on by, so they clearly did NOT look better in real life! ;-)