Mysterious Russian bronze (if that, for sale ...)

[AlexSpb]

Well , actually, all in the subject header ...
" Curious ," this thing is , of course , first and foremost for me. Specialists believe right now, all told. Like, all the letters of the author's name is quite readable, although the options have different interpretations . Something like " Lyufferd ", but such is nowhere found ( by the way, here is where the photo caption is better than life ). Search by name immediately gives " Sculpture of Radziwill the Orphan " and nothing more ...
My own views on the part of the search for truth in this exhausted.

Height -26cm , weight decent ...

[Pecheneg]

In the first photo title sculpture "Orphan"

the second name of the sculptor P.Kyufferle (Peter Osipovich Kyufferle)
 
and foundry mark, hard to see, but it seems Carl Rossini?

[AlexSpb]

Yes, there's your " Lyufferd " ... [ puzzled scratching his head ]
Honestly, have not heard about this before !
Now look : Pietro Kyufferle , a Russified Italian , lived in St. Petersburg. Translated into Italian poem Block and Vyacheslav Ivanov , the field of sculpture was marked mostly - Manufacturing of monuments and tombstones.
But any Lancer and Grachev known in hundreds of casts, such as " orphans ", it seems , no one has never seen ... Rarity !

[Кирилл Сызранский]

Сообщение от AlexSpb

Yes, there's your "Lyufferd" ...

clearly and unambiguously read - P.
Kyufferle , see for yourself at the picture.