MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1990, DESIGNED BY GENE MOORE

Gene Moore joined Tiffany & Co. in 1955 as a window display designer, becoming famous for avante garde windows and his relationship with contemporary artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Over his 39 years with the firm Moore decorated more than 5,000 windows, along with designing fanciful items such as the carousel and circus figures offered here. A nearly identical example was sold in these rooms, 19 May 2010, lot 183. A coursel of the same design is illustrated in Gene Moore's My Time at Tiffany's, 1990, p. 201.