Just call it the ultimate throne.

An 18-karat-gold toilet entitled America will be the star of a Sotheby’s this November. The fully functioning loo comes from the mind of artist —yes, the man behind that famed —and, in an auction first, will have a starting bid based on the price of gold on the day of the sale. With as of late, that figure could be anything; for now, though, the opening bid is set around $10 million.

America is one of two iterations of Cattelan’s gilded latrine. The first one popped up in 2016 at the Guggenheim in New York City, where visitors were invited to use the sculpture. After becoming an Internet sensation (and an -world provocateur), the toilet moved to England in 2019, where snatched it from the birthplace of Winston Churchill in a crime straight out of the

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