Certificates of authenticity for craft & applied art
Craft and applied-art objects — from furniture to jewellery to decorative work — deserve the same trustworthy record as fine art. Attesian gives each piece a signed certificate and an append-only provenance record.
Register a piece and it receives its genesis event and certificate. As with other three-dimensional work, identity rests primarily on the registry and on attestation by involved parties.
Each object is its own registry item, with maker recorded at the genesis event.
Commissions, sales, and owners are appended over time and never rewritten.
Attestation and the registry carry identity; the image is supporting evidence.
How image fingerprinting applies
Craft objects are three-dimensional, so a single photograph — and its perceptual fingerprint — captures only one view. Attesian leans on the registry constraint and attestation for a piece's identity.
Questions
- Does provenance matter for craft as much as for fine art?
- Increasingly, yes. A clear maker, an unbroken history, and a verifiable certificate raise confidence and value for collectible craft just as they do for painting or sculpture.