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It was a bold bowl move. Orlando-based Ripley Entertainment has purchased a 18-karat gold toilet at auction for $12.1 million. It’s the most money that the company has ever spent to add to its vast collection of oddities.

Ripley nabbed the fully functional toilet via auction by Sotheby’s New York this month.

“We were the only bidder, which was quite surprising because we thought it was going to fetch a lot more, because the artist himself is quite famous,” said Suzanne Smagala-Potts, senior manager with Ripley.

The piece was one of three identical golden toilets produced by satirical visual artist Maurizio Cattelan, who was born in Italy. In 2016, one version was installed in New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , where more than 10

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