It is a truly exceptional collection, the plates and dishes that we have here are authentic works by Picasso,” Bernard Piguet, director of the Piguet auction house in this city said.

According to him, they are unique pieces that belonged to the estate of the prominent Iberian painter and sculptor, and in the early 1980s, his heirs gave them to a friend.

Pigeons, fish, a goat, a bull and a bird adorn the ceramics, which are estimated to be worth more than 60 thousand dollars.

Made between 1947 and 1963 at the Madoura workshop in Vallauris, on the southeast coast of France, the collection is being shown to the public for the first time before the auction.

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