O. — Antique Intelligence.
A pocket consultant for old things: it reads objects, remembers your collection, and answers questions — from hallmarks to the care of bronze.
Curator O. is the antique intelligence of NEW ANTIQ: a consultant and interlocutor that reads objects from photographs, remembers its owner's collection, and answers questions about periods, makers, hallmarks, materials and the care of things. In this project, AI stands for Antique Intelligence, not artificial.
WHAT IT DOES
A photograph — and the piece has an era, an origin and an honest price from live sales of similar things.
Your collection and your conversations — with your consent. The memory can be erased at any moment.
Makers, hallmarks, materials, care. A reference book that talks — brief and to the point.
The Antique DNA test teaches O. your language: readings and selections lean your way.
CHARACTER
Not artificial — antique.
The founder's curatorial eye, made digital. What it knows, it says; what it doesn't, it says too: "established · probable · I don't know" is its manner of speech, not a disclaimer. O. never rushes you, never flatters, and never pretends to be human.
A SAMPLE CONVERSATION
O.'S MAP OF KNOWLEDGE
Pull any node — and see what a piece is connected to.
Here the curator’s knowledge is shown as connections: eras, makers, materials and hallmarks linked to one another, with your own pieces standing among them. The map doesn’t explain — it shows adjacency: why 1860s bronze pulls Paris, mercury gilding and a particular frame profile along with it.
Start with any node. Five minutes here are worth an hour of reading — you see not a list of facts but how they hold on to each other.
The ring is the curator’s face. The cloud is its mind.
THE CONNECTIONS IN WORDS · THE SAME MAP
The same connections in text — for reading and quoting.
Connections of the map — sample nodes
- Era: France, 1860s → materials: gilt bronze, mercury gilding · makers: Parisian bronziers · forms: candelabra, mantel clocks, mirror frames
- Material: red saffian → pieces: chesterfield, library armchairs · region: England, 19th century · marks: deep capitonné tufting, brass nailhead trim
- Hallmark: crossed swords → manufactory: Meissen · material: hard-paste porcelain · common confusion: Limoges (by decoration)
- Trait: patina → reading: the biography of a piece, not a defect · check: original or induced
Eras
- Victorian — Chippendale (maker), Saffian (material), Walnut (material), Bronze (material), Your chesterfield · 1880 (your piece)
- Louis XV — Boulle (maker), Gilding (material), Bronze (material)
- Art Deco — Bronze (material), Gilding (material)
- Art Nouveau — Gallé (maker), Porcelain (material)
Makers and manufactories
- Boulle — Louis XV (era), Walnut (material), Gilding (material)
- Gallé — Art Nouveau (era), Porcelain (material)
- Chippendale — Victorian (era), Walnut (material), Your chesterfield · 1880 (your piece)
- Sèvres — Porcelain (material), Manufactory mark (mark)
Materials
- Bronze — Victorian (era), Louis XV (era), Art Deco (era), Maker's mark (mark), Casting seam (mark), Spelter (material), Your mirror · 1870 (your piece)
- Spelter — Bronze (material), Casting seam (mark)
- Walnut — Victorian (era), Boulle (maker), Chippendale (maker), Your chesterfield · 1880 (your piece)
- Saffian — Victorian (era), Your chesterfield · 1880 (your piece)
- Porcelain — Art Nouveau (era), Gallé (maker), Sèvres (maker), Manufactory mark (mark)
- Gilding — Louis XV (era), Art Deco (era), Boulle (maker), Your mirror · 1870 (your piece)
Marks and traces
- Maker's mark — Bronze (material), Your mirror · 1870 (your piece), 925 hallmark (mark)
- 925 hallmark — Maker's mark (mark)
- Manufactory mark — Sèvres (maker), Porcelain (material)
- Casting seam — Bronze (material), Spelter (material)
Your pieces
- Your mirror · 1870 — Gilding (material), Bronze (material), Maker's mark (mark)
- Your chesterfield · 1880 — Saffian (material), Walnut (material), Victorian (era), Chippendale (maker)
DOORS
CURATOR