Crescent City's Winter Estates Auction, January 20-21, will be held online and live in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS - Jan. 5, 2023 - PRLog -- Original paintings by renowned artists Keith Haring (N.Y./Pa., 1958-1990) and George Louis Viavant (La., 1872-1925), an 89-piece set of Herend porcelain dinnerware and a 110-piece sterling flatware set by Gorham-Alvin are a few of the expected top lots in Crescent City Auction Gallery's Winter Estates Auction slated for January 20^th and 21^st.

The auction, starting at 10 am Central time both days, is loaded with nearly 1,000 choice lots in a wide variety of collecting categories. Bidding is available online, as well as live in the Crescent City gallery at 1330 Saint Charles Avenue in New Orleans. In-person gallery previews will begin on Wednesday, January 11^th, from 10-5 Central time. Phone and absentee bids will be accepted.

Keith Haring's unique pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His popularity grew from his spontaneous drawings in Manhattan subways – chalk outlines of figures, dogs, and other stylized images on blank black advertising spaces. The untitled acrylic on paper from 1987, signed, 12 ½ inches by 8 ½ inches, is expected to sell for $6,000-$9,000.

George Louis Viavant was a Louisiana artist who was inspired by the bayous, marshes and lagoons of Southern Louisiana. He painted the birds, fish, and small game that he knew from hunting on the family land outside New Orleans. His watercolor on paper in the auction, titled Nature Morte: Crawfish, measuring 13 ½ inches by 7 ¾ inches, should realize $4,000-$8,000.

The 89-piece set of Herend porcelain dinnerware in the "Rothschild Bird" pattern is estimated to reach $3,000-$5,000. The Herend Porcelain Manufactory was founded in Hungary in 1826. It specialized in luxury hand-painted and gilded porcelain and was purveyor to the Hapsburg Dynasty and aristocratic customers across Europe. Many of its patterns are still in production.

The 110-piece set of sterling flatware by Gorham-Alvin in the "Cambridge" pattern, produced in 1899 and weighing 106.59 troy oz., carries a pre-sale estimate of $2,000-$4,000. The Alvin Mfg. Company was founded in 1886 by William H. Jamoneau in Irvington, N.J. Several name changes later, the firm's assets, dies and patterns were all purchased by the Gorham Corporation in 1928.

Internet bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and BidSquare.com.Absentee and phone bids will be accepted until 1 pm Central time the day before the auction. For more information, visit www.crescentcityauctiongallery.com. Updates are posted often.