Peploe's 1905 coffee pot painting has antiques valuation of £1.2m
The piece could fetch more than £1 million if its antiques valuation is anything to go by.
A 1905 painting by Samuel John Peploe has been given an antiques valuation of between £800,000 and £1.2 million.
According to the Scotsman, the piece - entitled Still Life with Coffee Pot - could set a record for any Scottish painting sold at auction.
It is set to go under the hammer at Christie's in May and has previously fetched £87,000 when it was at auction.
Andre Zlattinger, Christie's new senior director for 20th Century British and Irish Art, said it is like no other work by Peploe, who died in 1935, that has been brought to the market.
He added: "It's a masterpiece and it's very rare for these early pictures to come up for sale."
This comes after a Picasso painting of his mistress was given an antiques valuation of $27 million (£17 million) earlier this month, Reuters reported.
La Lecture was created in 1932 and is a painting of Marie-Therese Walter.
Posted by Keith Leicester