{"id":140786,"date":"2025-11-19T03:06:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140786"},"modified":"2025-11-19T03:06:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:06:43","slug":"solid-gold-toilet-snapped-up-for-us12-1-million-at-new-york-auctionunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140786","title":{"rendered":"Solid gold toilet snapped up for US$12.1 million at New York auctionUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold on Tuesday for US$236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirising the ultrarich also fetched US$12.1 million.<br \/>\nThe toilet, by Maurizio Cattelan &#8211; the provocative Italian artist known for taping a banana to a wall &#8211; went up for auction on Tuesday evening at Sotheby\u2019s in New York. The starting bid for the 101kg, 18-karat gold work was about US$10 million.<br \/>\nCattelan has said the piece, titled&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3333338\/solid-gold-toilet-snapped-us121-million-new-york-auction?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold on Tuesday for US$236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}