LONDON>> 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 titled 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 more than 223 pounds of gold used to make it — currently about $10 million.

David Galperin, head of contemporary art at Sotheby’s in New York, said Cattelan is “the consummate art world provocateur.” He’s also one of most successful, an artist whose work Comedian — a banana duct-taped to a wall — sold at a New York auction last year for $6.2 million. Him — Cattelan’s unsettling sculpture of a kneeling Adolf Hitler — sold for $17.2 million at a Christie’s auction in 2016.

The artist has said the golden toilet America satirizes excessive wealth.

“Whatever you eat, a $200 lunch or a $2 hot dog, the results are the same, toilet-wise,” he once said.

Two versions of America were created in 2016.

The one being sold has been owned by an unnamed collector since 2017.

— The Associated Press