LONDON (AP) — For sale: The world’s most valuable toilet,
a lavatory literally worth its weight in gold.

Sotheby’s announced Friday that it will auction off the solid
gold cistern, a sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan
entitled “America.”

The auction house calls it an “incisive commentary on the
collision of artistic production and commodity value.” It’s
also a fully functional toilet, identical to one that gained
global fame when it was stolen in an audacious heist from
England’s Blenheim Palace in 2019.

The starting price at the Nov. 18 auction in New York will be
the price of the just over 101.2 kilograms (223 pounds) of
gold used to make it – currently about $10 million.