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A GROUP OF AMERICAN SILVER AND ENAMEL CIRCUS FIGURES
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A GROUP OF AMERICAN SILVER AND ENAMEL CIRCUS FIGURES

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

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A GROUP OF AMERICAN SILVER AND ENAMEL CIRCUS FIGURES
MARK OF TIFFANY & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1990, DESIGNED BY GENE MOORE
Comprising a tiger carousel figure on a base, a clown car, two juggling clowns, a female and a male equilibrist, a horse-form tricycle, a sasquatch standing on a ball and balancing three balls, a female clown with a baby in a carriage, a pirate musician with a monkey, and a roller skating bear, each cast in silver and with various color enamel, marked TIFFANY & CO, STERLING, some further marked 925
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high, the balancing sasquatch
95 oz. 12 dwt. (2,973 gr.) gross weight

Anonymous sale; Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, 11 April 2012, lot 68014 (the clown car).

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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 circus figures offered here.