Picasso ceramics that fired up Richard Attenborough head to auction

The late, great British actor and director Richard Attenborough was ahead of the curve when it came to Picasso ceramics. Sixty-seven lots from the collection that he and his wife Sheila built over 50 yearsstarting in 1954 with a 30-franc (3) ashtray of a bird catching a wormare coming to auction at Sothebys London on 22 November with an estimated combined total in the region of 1.5m. The Attenboroughs first visit to the Madoura pottery studio in Vallauris, where Picasso dabbled in the medium fr