{ "works": [ { "id": "portrait-man-ivy-wreath", "museum_id": 5519, "accession_number": "1922.4798", "title": "Portrait of a Man Wearing an Ivy Wreath", "display_title": "Portrait of a Man Wearing an Ivy Wreath", "artist": "Ancient Egyptian", "artist_display": "Egyptian; The Fayum, Egypt", "maker_note": "Maker unrecorded. The AIC record gives a culture (artist_title 'Ancient Egyptian') and a region (artist_display 'Egyptian; The Fayum, Egypt'), not a named painter. The AIC's 2025 catalogue entry (Ashley F. Arico, cat. 110) also does not name the painter, and says the sitter's identity is unknown too ('As is true for most panel portraits, the identities of these two men are not known').", "date": "Roman Period, early to mid–2nd century", "medium": "Lime (linden) wood, beeswax, pigments, gold, textile, and natural resin", "object_dimensions": "39.4 × 22 × 0.2 cm (15 9/16 × 8 11/16 × 1/8 in.)", "place_of_origin": "Al Fayyum", "style_title": "roman period (egyptian)", "classification_title": "painting", "department_title": "Arts of Africa", "source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago", "url": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/5519", "api_source": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/5519", "is_public_domain": true, "copyright_notice": null, "museum_image_id": "6db509c1-1283-e323-c451-d2fc48f1aa01", "museum_image_api": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/images/6db509c1-1283-e323-c451-d2fc48f1aa01", "museum_image_credit_line": "CC0 Public Domain Designation", "museum_iiif_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/6db509c1-1283-e323-c451-d2fc48f1aa01/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "credit_line": "Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne", "provenance_text": "Emily Crane Chadbourne (1871- 1964), Paris, London, and Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.", "provenance_note": "The AIC API provenance_text and the 2025 catalogue entry (cat. 110, https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593213/107) agree word for word: the chain starts with Emily Crane Chadbourne (1871–1964) and ends with her 1922 gift. Neither source gives a findspot, an excavation, a dealer, an acquisition date or an export record, so the panel's history before Chadbourne is unknown. The API gives the place as 'The Fayum, Egypt' (place_of_origin 'Al Fayyum'). The 2025 catalogue says only 'Probably the Fayum, Egypt', and notes that 'Fayum portrait' is an outdated name because such portraits were made all over Egypt. The two sources also give different titles: the API title is 'Portrait of a Man Wearing an Ivy Wreath', while the 2025 catalogue calls it 'Portrait of a Man Wearing a Wreath'. The catalogue explains why: Knudsen and Sabino (2016) and Verri et al. read the wreath as ivy leaves and berries, but Corcoran (2021) suggests convolvulus (bindweed). This record keeps the API title, as R5 requires. The 2016 AIC Roman Art catalogue entry (cats. 155–156) was not consulted because publications.artic.edu returned a Cloudflare 403 to a single fetch on 2026-10-09, and it was not retried.", "file": "portrait-man-ivy-wreath.jpg", "image": "/assets/unsigned/portrait-man-ivy-wreath.jpg", "width": 843, "height": 1124, "bytes": 184862, "sha256": "37cd47ce2a98b18c5df77c5063bc578eef15fe19169f6b876857088dd191bcb4", "license": "CC0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/", "rights_policy": "https://www.artic.edu/open-access/open-access-images", "image_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/6db509c1-1283-e323-c451-d2fc48f1aa01/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "delivery_source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago IIIF image server", "download_receipt": "Captured 2026-10-09 17:24:03–17:24:07 UTC with headless Chromium (Playwright 1.59.1, local install). There was one page.goto of https://www.artic.edu/artworks/5519, which returned HTTP 200 and redirected to /artworks/5519/portrait-of-a-man-wearing-an-ivy-wreath, waiting until networkidle. The artwork page itself requested the IIIF URL above, and page.on('response') captured the reply: HTTP 200, image/jpeg, served by Cantaloupe/4.1.7 behind Cloudflare (cf-cache-status HIT), with Last-Modified 'Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:24:07 GMT', the same as the Date header. This was the only IIIF response for this image_id during the load. The page's currentSrc was the same URL and reported 843 × 1124 natural pixels. No separate or crafted request was made and nothing was retried. The response bytes were saved unchanged. Capture log: tools/receipts/unsigned/portrait-man-ivy-wreath.json in the repository (not served on the site).", "image_credit": "Digital reproduction from the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0 Public Domain Designation).", "modifications": "None. The bytes are saved exactly as the AIC IIIF endpoint delivered them to the artwork page at 843 px wide: a progressive JPEG (JFIF 1.02), RGB, with no EXIF and no embedded ICC segment (sips reports its default sRGB). No crop, resize, recolour or re-encode.", "rights_note": "The AIC artwork API marks this work public domain (is_public_domain true, copyright_notice null). The AIC image API record for this reproduction (image 6db509c1-1283-e323-c451-d2fc48f1aa01) has credit_line 'CC0 Public Domain Designation'. The bytes came straight from the museum's IIIF server as loaded by its own artwork page, not through Wikimedia Commons, so no third-party photo licence applies.", "museum_alt_text": "A portrait of a young man with dark hair and beard painted on an irregular piece of wood. The background is gold as a wreath of ivy and necklace he wears. There are many areas where the paint has come off the surface.", "alt": "A thin, upright wooden panel with an uneven, angled top edge, shown against a plain grey background. On it is a head-and-shoulders portrait of a young man facing forward. He has large brown eyes, thick dark eyebrows, dark curly hair, a short dark beard and a moustache. A thin gold band with small gold leaves circles his hair. Patches of gold leaf fill the space on either side of his neck and shoulders, and a few small gold squares sit along the neckline of his pale garment. Reddish-brown streaks run down the face and chest, wood grain shows through the worn paint, and dark brown and black patches cover much of the lower third of the panel.", "looking_prompts": [ "Find the small gold squares along the neckline of his garment. How many can you count?", "Follow the thin gold band around his hair and look at the small leaves hanging from it. What shape are they?" ], "looking_prompt": "Find the small gold squares along the neckline of his garment. How many can you count?", "context_source": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/5519", "context_sources": [ "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/5519", "https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593213/107" ], "text_licence_note": "All AIC API fields are CC0 except `description`, which is CC BY 4.0 (API info.license_text, fetched 2026-10-09); paraphrase and link it rather than copying it. The 2025 catalogue entry is © 2025 The Art Institute of Chicago under CC BY-NC 4.0 (licence line on the entry page, 2026-10-09), so paraphrase and link it only.", "sensitivities": "Funerary portrait of a real, now unnamed person. The 2025 AIC catalogue (https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593213/107) says panels like this were laid over the face of a mummified person and held in place with strips of linen. It says this panel was trimmed at the top to fit the mummified body it was once attached to, and that resin and mummy wrappings still stick to the surface; the API medium lists 'textile, and natural resin'. The panel is not itself human remains, but it carries burial wrapping material, and the body it belonged to is not recorded in any AIC source (couldn't determine where it is). The catalogue says that 'the vast majority' of such portraits were removed from the mummified people they belonged to because of their modern popularity as art objects. Whether and when this panel was cut from its mummy is not recorded. Sacred use: the catalogue describes these portraits as part of funerary ritual, playing a role in the dead person's transfiguration after death, and links gilded wreaths to Book of the Dead Spells 19–20. Colonial-era removal: the findspot, excavation, export date and route are all unrecorded, and the provenance begins only with Chadbourne, who gave the panel in 1922. Restitution: no claim on this object was found (two web searches, 2026-10-09). Handle as a burial object: no novelty or 'spooky mummy' framing, and do not give the sitter a name or invent a biography.", "verified_at": "2026-10-09T17:26:51.780183+00:00", "capture_log": "tools/receipts/unsigned/portrait-man-ivy-wreath.json" }, { "id": "stela-amenemhat-hemet", "museum_id": 127859, "accession_number": "1920.262", "title": "Stela of Amenemhat and Hemet", "display_title": "Stela of Amenemhat and Hemet", "artist": "Ancient Egyptian", "artist_display": "Egyptian; probably Thebes (now Luxor), Egypt", "maker_note": "Maker unrecorded. The AIC record names a culture (artist_title 'Ancient Egyptian') and a probable place ('probably Thebes (now Luxor), Egypt'), not an individual maker. The 2025 AIC catalogue entry says the central scene and the border text seem to have been carved by different artists, still unnamed.", "date": "Middle Kingdom, early Dynasty 12, about 1956–1877 BCE", "medium": "Limestone and pigment", "object_dimensions": "31.1 × 41.7 × 6.7 cm (12 1/4 × 16 3/8 × 2 5/8 in.)", "place_of_origin": "Egypt", "style_title": "twelfth dynasty", "classification_title": "Stelae", "department_title": "Arts of Africa", "source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago", "url": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/127859", "api_source": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/127859", "is_public_domain": true, "copyright_notice": null, "museum_image_id": "9365a024-75ce-75e9-756f-1c2c96eadec9", "museum_image_api": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/images/9365a024-75ce-75e9-756f-1c2c96eadec9", "museum_image_credit_line": "CC0 Public Domain Designation", "museum_iiif_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/9365a024-75ce-75e9-756f-1c2c96eadec9/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "credit_line": "Museum Purchase Fund", "provenance_text": "Ralph Huntington Blanchard (1875-1936), Cairo; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago through James Henry Breasted as agent, 1920.", "provenance_note": "The AIC API provenance_text names the seller as 'Ralph Huntington Blanchard (1875-1936), Cairo' without giving his role and gives the sale year as 1920. The 2025 catalogue entry calls him 'the Cairo dealer Ralph Blanchard' (fetched 2026-10-09). The AIC's 2025 catalogue entry (Emily Teeter, cat. 7, https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593213/22) gives 1919 and cites a letter from Breasted to Charles L. Hutchinson dated December 7, 1919. The accession number is 1920.262. The Griffith Institute Topographical Bibliography lists the stela under 'Objects of Provenance Not Known' (vol. 8, pt. 3, 2007, p. 138, as cited in the catalogue). No findspot, excavation record or export permit is given in either AIC source.", "file": "stela-amenemhat-hemet.jpg", "image": "/assets/unsigned/stela-amenemhat-hemet.jpg", "width": 843, "height": 674, "bytes": 189469, "sha256": "907429cada0044c15f7fc788479abc97cf2d002e4c2d2587980eafb972ad6187", "license": "CC0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/", "rights_policy": "https://www.artic.edu/open-access/open-access-images", "image_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/9365a024-75ce-75e9-756f-1c2c96eadec9/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "delivery_source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago IIIF image server", "download_receipt": "Captured 2026-10-09 19:29:10–19:29:19 UTC with headless Chromium (HeadlessChrome/147.0.7727.15) through Playwright 1.59.1 (local install), viewport 1440x900 at DPR 1. There was one page.goto of https://www.artic.edu/artworks/127859, which returned HTTP 200 and redirected to /artworks/127859/stela-of-amenemhat-and-hemet, waiting until networkidle. The artwork page itself requested the IIIF URL above (and a 400 px copy, not used), and page.on('response') captured the 843 px reply: HTTP 200, image/jpeg, Cantaloupe/4.1.7 behind Cloudflare (cf-cache-status HIT), Last-Modified 'Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:30:35 GMT', 189469 bytes, with this record's sha256. The page's currentSrc was the same URL and reported 843 × 674 natural pixels. No separate or crafted request was made and nothing was retried. This page capture is the receipt of record. It confirms the file first saved at about 16:52 UTC the same day: after a plain page.goto of the IIIF URL returned 403, that copy came from a browser-context request.get of the IIIF URL with Referer set to the artwork page. That earlier copy is byte-identical to this capture. Capture log: tools/receipts/unsigned/stela-amenemhat-hemet.json in the repository (not served on the site).", "image_credit": "Digital reproduction from the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0 Public Domain Designation).", "modifications": "None. Bytes saved exactly as the AIC IIIF endpoint served them at 843 px wide (progressive JPEG, RGB, no EXIF). No crop, resize, recolour or re-encode.", "rights_note": "The AIC artwork API marks this work public domain (is_public_domain true, copyright_notice null). The AIC image API record for the reproduction carries credit_line 'CC0 Public Domain Designation'. The bytes came directly from the museum's IIIF server, not through Wikimedia Commons, so there is no third-party photo licence.", "museum_alt_text": "A rectangular stone slab is painted with two large figures with medium-dark skin in profile, a man and a woman. Surrounding them are various food items, as well as a smaller male figure holding a large piece of meat. Across the top are hieroglyphics.", "alt": "A painted limestone slab. On the left, a woman in a long white dress and a long black wig stands behind a man in a white kilt; both face right, and she holds a long-stemmed lotus flower to her face. In front of them, a white pedestal table holds tall yellow reeds and food. To the right are tall jars, more food, and a small man holding a leg of meat. Hieroglyphs fill the spaces between the figures, and blue hieroglyphs run along the top and right edges.", "looking_prompts": [ "Follow the lotus stem from the woman's lower hand up to the flower at her face.", "Find the small man at the upper right. What is he carrying, and which way does he face?" ], "looking_prompt": "Follow the lotus stem from the woman's lower hand up to the flower at her face.", "context_source": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/127859", "context_sources": [ "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/127859", "https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593213/22" ], "text_licence_note": "The AIC API fields are CC0 except `description`, which is CC BY 4.0 (API info.license_text, 2026-10-09); paraphrase and link it rather than copying. The 2025 catalogue entry is © 2025 Art Institute of Chicago under CC BY-NC 4.0, so paraphrase and link it only.", "sensitivities": "Funerary/commemorative object. Per AIC, the stela invokes Osiris and provides food for the deceased couple in the afterlife. It is not human remains. Its findspot is unrecorded, and it was bought in 1919/1920 from a Cairo dealer while Egypt was under British control. No export permit is recorded in the AIC sources, and no restitution claim on this stela was found (one web search, 2026-10-09).", "verified_at": "2026-10-09T16:54:23.450818+00:00", "capture_log": "tools/receipts/unsigned/stela-amenemhat-hemet.json" }, { "id": "peach-blossom-spring", "museum_id": 75361, "accession_number": "1951.196", "title": "The Peach Blossom Spring 桃花源圖", "display_title": "The Peach Blossom Spring 桃花源圖", "artist": "Artist unknown (17th century), spurious signature of Qiu Ying 仇英 (c. 1500-1552)", "artist_display": "Artist unknown (17th century), spurious signature of Qiu Ying 仇英 (c. 1500-1552)\nChinese", "maker_named": false, "maker_note": "Maker unrecorded. AIC artist_display names no maker: 'Artist unknown (17th century), spurious signature of Qiu Ying 仇英 (c. 1500-1552)', then 'Chinese'. The AIC artist_title ('Qiu Ying') and artist_ids [33901] fields still link the record to Qiu Ying, so under R5 they must not be used as a maker credit. The AIC description (CC BY 4.0, paraphrased here) says the soft, restrained brushwork suggests that one of Qiu Ying's close followers painted it; that follower is still unnamed. The AIC inscriptions field is null, so the record does not give the signature's text or position.", "date": "Late Ming (1368–1644) or early Qing (1644–1912) dynasty", "medium": "Handscroll; ink and color on silk", "object_dimensions": "32.5 × 558.2 cm (12 13/16 × 219 3/4 in.)", "place_of_origin": "China", "style_title": "Chinese (culture or style)", "classification_title": "handscroll", "department_title": "Arts of Asia", "source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago", "url": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/75361", "api_source": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/75361", "is_public_domain": true, "copyright_notice": null, "museum_image_id": "7d5dcd32-b556-6d64-c90e-d195717f633f", "museum_image_api": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/images/7d5dcd32-b556-6d64-c90e-d195717f633f", "museum_image_credit_line": null, "museum_iiif_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/7d5dcd32-b556-6d64-c90e-d195717f633f/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "credit_line": "Kate S. Buckingham Endowment", "provenance_text": null, "provenance_note": "In the AIC API (2026-10-09), provenance_text, exhibition_history, publication_history, fiscal_year and catalogue_display are all null. The credit line 'Kate S. Buckingham Endowment' names an endowment fund, which suggests a purchase, but the record names no seller or date. The room's provenance line ('Bought for the museum through the Kate S. Buckingham Endowment') reads the credit line as a purchase; that is this inference, not a recorded fact. The accession number starts with 1951; AIC accession numbers usually begin with the year the work entered the collection, but this is an inference the record does not state. No findspot, earlier owner or export record appears in the AIC sources. Ownership before the AIC: couldn't determine.", "file": "peach-blossom-spring.jpg", "image": "/assets/unsigned/peach-blossom-spring.jpg", "width": 843, "height": 262, "bytes": 84376, "sha256": "a90a5ec2cf19c0d781ffcd45b8b756a3af28ad39fc399344f5dd02936be156eb", "license": "CC0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/", "rights_policy": "https://www.artic.edu/open-access/open-access-images", "image_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/7d5dcd32-b556-6d64-c90e-d195717f633f/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "delivery_source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago IIIF image server (requested by the public artwork page itself)", "download_receipt": "Captured 2026-10-09 17:28:39–17:28:45 UTC with headless Chromium (Playwright 1.59.1, local install; user agent HeadlessChrome/147.0.7727.15; viewport 1440x900). One page.goto of https://www.artic.edu/artworks/75361 returned HTTP 200, page title 'The Peach Blossom Spring 桃花源圖 | The Art Institute of Chicago'. The page's own (srcset 200w/400w/843w/1686w) chose the 843w candidate and requested https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/7d5dcd32-b556-6d64-c90e-d195717f633f/full/843,/0/default.jpg. The page.on('response') handler saved the response unchanged: HTTP 200 image/jpeg, cf-cache-status HIT, age 298358, Last-Modified 'Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:33:43 GMT', 84376 bytes. There was no direct IIIF request and no retry. Earlier the same day, a direct curl and a page.goto of the IIIF URL both got a Cloudflare 403 challenge (superseded record); the visitor-page route worked. Capture log: tools/receipts/unsigned/peach-blossom-spring.json in the repository (not served on the site).", "existing_mirror": "https://artbitrage.io/art/artic-the-peach-blossom-spring.jpg", "matches_existing_mirror": "dist/art/artic-the-peach-blossom-spring.jpg (byte-identical: same sha256 and bytes). The file was not copied from it.", "existing_mirror_note": "This file's provenance is the page capture in image_source and download_receipt, not the mirror. The existing repo mirror holds the same AIC image: dist/art/artic-the-peach-blossom-spring.jpg at worktree commit 974ea7aed (added in 713b763a3, 2026-07-13, 'images: serve every picture from /art/ on our own edge') and the live https://artbitrage.io/art/artic-the-peach-blossom-spring.jpg (one GET, 2026-10-09: HTTP 200, 84376 bytes) both have exactly this sha256. The repo has no download receipt for the mirror's original 2026-07-13 download. This record's fresh page capture is what proves the mirror bytes match what AIC serves today. The legacy /art/ mirror has no credits file of its own, so existing_credit_record cannot be set.", "image_credit": "Digital image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago (wording from the AIC IIIF manifest attribution). Public-domain artwork; AIC open-access image (CC0).", "modifications": "None. Bytes saved exactly as the page's IIIF response delivered them at 843 px wide (progressive JPEG, RGB, no embedded ICC profile, no EXIF). No crop, resize, recolour or re-encode.", "rights_note": "The AIC artwork API marks this work public domain (is_public_domain true, copyright_notice null, 2026-10-09). The AIC image API record for this reproduction (E15142) has credit_line null, unlike some AIC images that carry 'CC0 Public Domain Designation'. The manifest attribution reads 'Digital image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.' and gives no licence field. The CC0 label therefore depends on the artwork's public-domain flag together with the AIC open-access policy at rights_policy. That policy page was not re-read in this session. The bytes came straight from the museum's IIIF server, not through Wikimedia Commons, so no third-party photo licence applies.", "museum_alt_text": "An ink and color handscroll of a landscape scene, mountains in the background, a river in the foreground and trees throughout the midground", "alt": "A horizontal section of a silk handscroll, painted in blue-green and dark ink on golden-brown silk. Blue-green mountains run along the top. At left, flat stepped fields stretch back toward the hills, with thin leafless pinkish trees and blue rocks in the foreground. Right of centre, a two-storey pavilion with a railed balcony stands among dark pines. At the bottom, a man stands at one end of a long, narrow boat on open water. On the bank above him are a small figure in red and a standing figure. At lower right, a figure in a dark robe faces a group of robed figures beneath tall pines and pale pink flowering trees.", "looking_prompts": [ "Find the man standing in the long, narrow boat at the bottom edge. Which way does the boat's pointed end face?", "A handscroll is unrolled from right to left. Start with the group of figures under the pines at the lower right, then travel left past the two-storey pavilion to the open fields." ], "looking_prompt": "Find the man standing in the long, narrow boat at the bottom edge. Which way does the boat's pointed end face?", "context_source": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/75361", "context_sources": [ "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/75361", "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/images/7d5dcd32-b556-6d64-c90e-d195717f633f", "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/75361/manifest.json" ], "museum_context_paraphrase": "Paraphrased from the AIC description field (CC BY 4.0, Art Institute of Chicago), not copied. The scroll illustrates a fable by Tao Qian (365–427) and reads from right to left. A fisherman stumbles on a peaceful farming valley hidden inside a mountain cave. Its people fled political turmoil six centuries earlier and know nothing of what has happened since. Blossoming peach trees, which AIC says symbolise immortality, hide the entrance. AIC links the azurite-blue and malachite-green mineral palette to the 'blue-and-green' manner of which Qiu Ying was a master, and judges from the soft, restrained brushwork that a close follower of his painted it.", "text_licence_note": "The AIC API fields are CC0 except `description`, which is CC BY 4.0 (API info.license_text, 2026-10-09). Paraphrase and link the description rather than copying it.", "reproduction_notes": [ "Section only. AIC photographed the 558.2 cm scroll in four images: E15140, E15141, E15142 and E15143 (image API titles). This file is the primary image, E15142 (full size 9725x3022, IIIF manifest canvas 843x262). It is not the whole scroll. Where this section falls in the narrative: couldn't determine from the record.", "This replaces the earlier Wikimedia Commons 960 px file (sha256 fe9eabc5…; that file was kept only in the capture session's working folder and is not preserved), which was visibly greener and duller than the current AIC image." ], "image_scope": "section", "sensitivities": "The AIC record gives no sacred, ritual or funerary context: it is a painting of a literary fable (AIC description). It contains no human remains. The provenance is unpublished: provenance_text, exhibition_history and publication_history are null, and how or when it left China is undetermined, so colonial-era or wartime removal can be neither confirmed nor ruled out. Two web searches on 2026-10-09 found no restitution or repatriation claim on this scroll; they surfaced only AIC disputes over other objects. Attribution sensitivity: the scroll bears a spurious Qiu Ying signature. On the current site, greed-island.html's card label and catalog/flowers.json credit 'Qiu Ying' as artist, which conflicts with AIC artist_display. rhymes.html and explore.html use 'After Qiu Ying 仇英（款）', which is not AIC's wording.", "existing_site_uses": [ "rhymes.html:351 and explore.html:1453 use /art/artic-the-peach-blossom-spring.jpg (explore via https://artbitrage.io/art/...) and label the maker 'After Qiu Ying 仇英（款）'.", "greed-island.html:539 uses /art/artic-the-peach-blossom-spring-t.jpg; its card back credits 'Qiu Ying'.", "catalog/flowers.json gives artist 'Qiu Ying' and hotlinks the AIC IIIF 843/1686/400 URLs.", "lamp.html:264-268 describes the label 'After Qiu Ying, 仇英（款）'." ], "verified_at": "2026-10-09T17:32:22.972725+00:00", "capture_log": "tools/receipts/unsigned/peach-blossom-spring.json" }, { "id": "millet-fields-under-sun-and-moon", "museum_id": 75068, "accession_number": "1989.625a-b", "title": "Millet Fields under Sun and Moon", "display_title": "Millet Fields under Sun and Moon", "artist": "Artist unknown · Japanese", "artist_display": "Artist unknown\nJapanese", "maker_note": "Maker unrecorded. The AIC API artist_title and artist_id are null; artist_display reads 'Artist unknown' / 'Japanese' and place_of_origin is 'Japan'. The AIC description (CC BY 4.0) says the screens have neither a signature nor identifying seals, and suggests they are probably by an unnamed painter of the Tosa school. That names a school, offered as likely, not a person. Per R5, show the maker as the museum does and never invent a name.", "date": "17th century", "medium": "Pair of six-panel screens; ink, colors, and gold on paper", "object_dimensions": "Each: 165.3 × 366 cm (65 1/8 × 144 1/8 in.)", "place_of_origin": "Japan", "style_title": null, "classification_title": "screen", "department_title": "Arts of Asia", "source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago", "url": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/75068", "api_source": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/75068", "is_public_domain": true, "copyright_notice": null, "museum_image_id": "3370476c-f1aa-d5d6-bd1e-2a4d940a2f9d", "museum_image_api": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/images/3370476c-f1aa-d5d6-bd1e-2a4d940a2f9d", "museum_image_credit_line": null, "museum_iiif_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/3370476c-f1aa-d5d6-bd1e-2a4d940a2f9d/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "credit_line": "Restricted Gift of the Rice Foundation", "provenance_text": null, "provenance_note": "The AIC API fields provenance_text, exhibition_history and publication_history are all null (fetched 2026-10-09). The artwork web page shows no provenance section. The only ownership facts in AIC sources are the credit line 'Restricted Gift of the Rice Foundation' and the reference number 1989.625a-b. The 2009 'Beyond Golden Clouds' exhibition page gives the same: 'Restricted Gift of The Rice Foundation, 1989.625a-b'. On museum credit lines 'Restricted Gift' usually means donor funds restricted to a purpose such as a purchase, so the Foundation may have funded the acquisition rather than owned the screens; AIC's own usage couldn't be confirmed (API searches on 2026-10-09 were inconclusive), and the API gives fiscal_year 1990. The number points to a 1989 accession, but that is inferred from AIC's numbering pattern and is not stated in the record. Who owned the screens before then, and when and how they left Japan, could not be determined.", "file": "millet-fields-under-sun-and-moon.jpg", "image": "/assets/unsigned/millet-fields-under-sun-and-moon.jpg", "width": 843, "height": 195, "bytes": 114442, "sha256": "befbab1bb08e36c56922113f30f7425a4d94500e8cb071cce329a1c3719801a5", "license": "CC0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/", "rights_policy": "https://www.artic.edu/open-access/open-access-images", "image_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/3370476c-f1aa-d5d6-bd1e-2a4d940a2f9d/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "delivery_source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago IIIF image server", "download_receipt": "Captured 2026-10-09 17:24:18 UTC with headless Chromium (Playwright 1.59.1, local install), viewport 1440x900 at DPR 1. The browser made one visitor-style load of https://www.artic.edu/artworks/75068 (HTTP 200, title 'Millet Fields under Sun and Moon | The Art Institute of Chicago'). The page's own offered srcset widths 200w, 400w, 843w and 1686w with sizes '843px' at 900px and wider; the browser chose 843w and loaded the IIIF URL above. page.on('response') captured that single response: HTTP 200 image/jpeg, cf-cache-status HIT, cache-control 'public, max-age=2592000, no-transform', Last-Modified 'Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:24:18 GMT' (the same as its Date header). No IIIF URL was requested directly and no retry was needed. The bytes were saved unchanged. The JSON receipt is kept at tools/receipts/unsigned/millet-fields-under-sun-and-moon.json in the repository (not served on the site); the raw response body is not kept, since its sha256 equals this file's.", "image_credit": "Digital reproduction from the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0 Public Domain Designation).", "modifications": "None. Bytes saved exactly as the AIC IIIF endpoint served them at 843 px wide (progressive JPEG, RGB; Pillow finds no EXIF and no embedded ICC profile, and sips reports its default sRGB). No crop, resize, recolour or re-encode.", "rights_note": "The AIC artwork API marks this work public domain (is_public_domain true, copyright_notice null). Unlike some AIC image records, the image API record for this reproduction has credit_line null. The 'CC0 Public Domain Designation' label is instead shown beside the image on the artwork page (page HTML fetched 2026-10-09). AIC's open-access page says images with that label may be used for any purpose, commercial or not, without further permission. The bytes came directly from the museum's IIIF server, not through Wikimedia Commons, so there is no third-party photo licence.", "museum_alt_text": "A work made of pair of six-panel screens; ink, colors, and gold on paper.", "alt": "Two six-panel folding screens shown side by side, each on a dull gold ground inside a narrow, patterned, pale blue-green border. A dense field of millet fills the lower half of both screens from edge to edge, with long leaves curling over in every direction. The leaves on the left screen are mostly gold-brown, and those on the right screen are mostly olive green. At the top, where the two screens meet, each has a wide dark blue band with a scalloped, cloud-shaped lower edge. A grey disc sits at the top edge of the band on the left screen, and a pale cream disc sits at the top edge of the band on the right screen.", "looking_prompts": [ "Find the two discs near the top centre, one on each screen. Which one is pale cream, and which is grey?", "Compare the millet leaves on the two screens. Which field has more green in it, and which has more gold-brown?" ], "looking_prompt": "Find the two discs near the top centre, one on each screen. Which one is pale cream, and which is grey?", "context_source": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/75068", "context_sources": [ "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/75068", "https://archive.artic.edu/beyondgoldenclouds/artwork/75068", "https://www.artic.edu/open-access/open-access-images" ], "text_licence_note": "The AIC API fields are CC0 except `description`, which is CC BY 4.0 (API info.license_text, fetched 2026-10-09); paraphrase and link it rather than copying. The description wraps its Japanese paragraph in literal '' markup, so do not render it raw. The 2009 'Beyond Golden Clouds' exhibition page on archive.artic.edu repeats that text under '© 2013 The Art Institute of Chicago' with the notice 'All text and images on this site are protected by U.S. and international copyright laws', so link it only.", "sensitivities": "No funerary, human-remains or sacred-use context appears in the AIC sources. These are a pair of folding screens (classification 'screen'). The AIC description says viewers seated on tatami mats would have been surrounded by them, which suggests a room setting. It also says the sun-and-moon pairing on screens carries Buddhist, Daoist and Shinto associations, but it does not describe these screens as ritual or temple objects. The AIC sources do not indicate a colonial-era removal. However, provenance before the 1989 reference number is unrecorded (provenance_text null), so how the screens left Japan couldn't be determined. Two web searches on 2026-10-09 found no restitution claim; they surfaced only AIC pages and unrelated dealer listings. The artwork page says the screens are currently off view.", "verified_at": "2026-10-09T17:27:31.363403+00:00", "capture_log": "tools/receipts/unsigned/millet-fields-under-sun-and-moon.json" }, { "id": "safavid-dress-fabric-panel", "museum_id": 6430, "accession_number": "1930.888", "title": "Panel (Dress Fabric)", "display_title": "Panel (Dress Fabric)", "artist": "Iran", "artist_display": "Iran", "maker_note": "Maker unrecorded. AIC API artist_title and artist_id are null; artist_display and place_of_origin both give only 'Iran'. Per R5, show the place exactly as the museum does; never invent a weaver or workshop.", "place_of_origin": "Iran", "date": "17th century, Safavid Dynasty (1501–1722)", "medium": "Silk, 2:1 twill weave, with complementary weft plain weave double cloth", "object_dimensions": "66.4 × 32.4 cm (26 1/8 × 12 3/4 in.)", "department_title": "Textiles", "classification_title": "textile", "style_title": "safavid", "source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago", "url": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/6430", "api_source": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/6430", "is_public_domain": true, "copyright_notice": null, "museum_image_id": "a96087ff-ea2e-924b-c6ec-7f279a2c140b", "museum_image_api": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/images/a96087ff-ea2e-924b-c6ec-7f279a2c140b", "museum_image_credit_line": null, "museum_iiif_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/a96087ff-ea2e-924b-c6ec-7f279a2c140b/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "credit_line": "Gift of Logan-Patten-Ryerson Collection", "provenance_text": null, "provenance_note": "The AIC API provenance_text for 6430 is null (fetched 2026-10-09), so this object's ownership chain before 1930 could not be determined. The following is context only, not this object's history. AIC records five other textiles accessioned in 1930 under the same credit line (1930.821, 1930.829, 1930.843, 1930.847, 1930.869) as 'Uujat Robbi, Tehran, Persia (now Iran), by Oct. 20, 1930 [incoming receipt R4629 ...]; sold through Arthur Upham Pope to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1930' (e.g. https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/6369). Whether 1930.888 followed that route: couldn't determine. The room's provenance line ('In the museum since 1930') rests on the accession number 1930.888, because AIC accession numbers usually begin with the year the work entered the collection; the API gives fiscal_year 1931. The record does not state the accession date, so this is an inference.", "file": "safavid-dress-fabric-panel.jpg", "image": "/assets/unsigned/safavid-dress-fabric-panel.jpg", "width": 843, "height": 1459, "bytes": 617321, "sha256": "5d30293d9d6d6d1f9bce6128625763c3bf8e20f2c5a6f5af623122e808df1f75", "file_format": "Progressive JPEG (JFIF 1.01), RGB, 8-bit, no ICC profile, no EXIF", "image_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/a96087ff-ea2e-924b-c6ec-7f279a2c140b/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "delivery_source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago IIIF image server", "download_receipt": { "method": "One visitor-style page.goto of https://www.artic.edu/artworks/6430 (HTTP 200, redirected to /artworks/6430/panel-dress-fabric) in headless Chromium (HeadlessChrome/147.0.7727.15) through Playwright 1.59.1 (local install), viewport 1440x900 at DPR 1, 2026-10-09 19:29:02–19:29:10 UTC, waiting until networkidle. The artwork page itself requested the IIIF URL above, and page.on('response') captured the reply. The page's currentSrc was the same URL at 843 × 1459 natural pixels. No separate or crafted request was made and nothing was retried.", "http_status": 200, "content_type": "image/jpeg", "server": "cloudflare; x-powered-by Cantaloupe/4.1.7", "cf_cache_status": "HIT", "last_modified": "Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:06:00 GMT", "response_date": "Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:29:03 GMT", "bytes": 617321, "sha256": "5d30293d9d6d6d1f9bce6128625763c3bf8e20f2c5a6f5af623122e808df1f75", "receipt_of_record": "This page capture. It confirms the file first saved at 16:54 UTC the same day, which is byte-identical to it.", "earlier_copy": "The file was first saved at 16:54 UTC (response Date 'Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:54:24 GMT', same Last-Modified) by Playwright 1.59.1 driving an installed, headed Google Chrome 151.0.7922.175 (channel 'chrome', fresh context) doing page.goto of the IIIF URL itself, after bundled headless Chromium (goto and context.request.get) and headless Chrome each got HTTP 403 with a Cloudflare 'Just a moment...' challenge. A second fetch of the same URL that afternoon was also byte-identical; it was kept only in the capture session's working folder and is not preserved.", "capture_log": "tools/receipts/unsigned/safavid-dress-fabric-panel.json in the repository (not served on the site)" }, "commons_check": "No Wikimedia Commons file reproduces this object. On 2026-10-09 the Commons file namespace was searched for '1930.888', insource:'1930.888', insource:'artworks/6430' and intitle:'Panel (Dress Fabric)', and five AIC-style file names were probed; there were no matches. Wikidata has no item with ARTIC artwork ID (P4610) 6430.", "license": "CC0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/", "rights_policy": "https://www.artic.edu/open-access/open-access-images", "image_credit": "Digital reproduction from the Art Institute of Chicago, delivered by its IIIF image server.", "rights_note": "The AIC artwork record (API, fetched 2026-10-09) marks this work is_public_domain:true with copyright_notice null. The reproduction is AIC's own IIIF image of the object (image record IM008950, linked only to artwork 6430), so the rights check rests on the museum record alone; no third-party photograph is involved.", "modifications": "None. Saved the exact bytes returned for the 843-pixel-wide IIIF request (843 × 1459, the full 1300 × 2250 frame scaled by the server).", "museum_context": "The AIC record has no description or short_description (both null), so there is no museum interpretive text to paraphrase. The thumbnail alt_text reads 'A work made of silk, 2:1 twill weave, with complementary weft plain weave double cloth.'", "verified_at": "2026-10-09T16:54:53.894822+00:00", "alt": "A tall rectangular silk panel woven with rows of pale blue scalloped medallions, each holding a pink flower on a stem between curling olive-green leaves, set in a lattice of pink, gold and lilac foliage; its edges are frayed and there are a few small dark marks.", "looking_prompts": [ "Follow one row of blue medallions across the cloth, then notice how the row below sits between them.", "Look at the left and right edges, where medallions are cut in half." ], "curatorial_status": "Claude drafted the alt text and looking prompts from the downloaded image on 2026-10-09. Later that day an independent review pass (also an AI agent) viewed the image and found the alt text and both prompts accurate, and Claude checked them against the image again while applying the review. No human curator has reviewed them.", "looking_prompt": "Follow one row of blue medallions across the cloth, then notice how the row below sits between them.", "context_source": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/6430", "context_sources": [ "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/6430", "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/images/a96087ff-ea2e-924b-c6ec-7f279a2c140b" ], "text_licence_note": "The AIC API fields are CC0 except `description`, which is CC BY 4.0 (API info.license_text, 2026-10-09). This record's description and short_description are both null, so all AIC text used here is CC0.", "sensitivities": "Secular dress fabric: the AIC record title is 'Panel (Dress Fabric)' and its classification is 'textile'. The AIC record states no funerary, sacred or ritual use, and it is not human remains. Provenance before the 1930 accession number is unrecorded (provenance_text null), so how and when it left Iran couldn't be determined, and no export record appears. This record does not include a restitution search.", "capture_log": "tools/receipts/unsigned/safavid-dress-fabric-panel.json" }, { "id": "iznik-tankard-tulips-hyacinths", "museum_id": 69109, "accession_number": "1913.342", "title": "Tankard (Hanap) with Tulips, Hyacinths, Roses, and Carnations", "display_title": "Tankard (Hanap) with Tulips, Hyacinths, Roses, and Carnations", "artist": "Islamic", "artist_display": "Turkey\nIznik", "maker_note": "Maker unrecorded. The AIC record names a culture ('Islamic', which is artist_title and agent 29882; the web page shows it as 'Culture Islamic') and a place, 'Turkey' then 'Iznik', on two lines. It does not name a potter or painter. The AIC `description` speaks of 'the artist' and says Iznik potters worked with the imperial Ottoman design studio in Istanbul (nakkash-hane), but it names no one.", "date": "Ottoman dynasty (1299–1923), Late 16th century", "medium": "Iznik ware, fritware with underglaze painting in blue, turquoise, red, and black", "object_dimensions": "19.6 × 15 × 10.5 cm (7 3/4 × 5 7/8 × 4 1/8 in.)", "place_of_origin": "Turkey", "style_title": "iznik", "classification_title": "drinking vessel", "department_title": "Arts of Asia", "source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago", "url": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/69109", "api_source": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/69109", "is_public_domain": true, "copyright_notice": null, "museum_image_id": "9c807e61-db58-3f5f-d208-c1786ccbf520", "museum_image_api": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/images/9c807e61-db58-3f5f-d208-c1786ccbf520", "museum_image_credit_line": null, "museum_iiif_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/9c807e61-db58-3f5f-d208-c1786ccbf520/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "credit_line": "Mary Jane Gunsaulus Collection", "provenance_text": null, "provenance_note": "The AIC API returns provenance_text null, publication_history null and exhibition_history null (fetched 2026-10-09). The public artwork page (one plain HTTP fetch, 2026-10-09) has no provenance section. It shows only the credit line 'Mary Jane Gunsaulus Collection' and reference number 1913.342. The '1913' prefix probably means the work was accessioned in 1913, since AIC accession numbers usually begin with the year; this is an inference and the record does not say so. The room's provenance line ('In the museum by 1913') rests on it. The AIC's own Handbook of the Department of Oriental Art (Art Institute of Chicago; I could not determine its year from the bookseller listing I consulted, https://www.aseq.it/arte-orientale/31725-handbook-of-the-department-of-oriental-art.html) says the Near Eastern collection 'was given its first impulse by Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, then trustee of the Art Institute, by his gift of the Mary Jane Gunsaulus Collection of Persian and Near Eastern Pottery'. I could not determine where, when or from whom Gunsaulus acquired this tankard, any earlier owners, or who Mary Jane Gunsaulus was. No findspot, dealer or export record appears in any AIC source consulted.", "file": "iznik-tankard-tulips-hyacinths.jpg", "image": "/assets/unsigned/iznik-tankard-tulips-hyacinths.jpg", "width": 843, "height": 828, "bytes": 123301, "sha256": "da30619b10b143a4549d33ea8631e3679eaf84c9e7bb586c804faa88633fb20f", "license": "CC0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/", "rights_policy": "https://www.artic.edu/open-access/open-access-images", "image_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/9c807e61-db58-3f5f-d208-c1786ccbf520/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "delivery_source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago IIIF image server", "download_receipt": "Captured 2026-10-09 17:24:13 UTC with headless Chromium (147.0.7727.15) through Playwright 1.59.1 (local install). There was one page.goto of https://www.artic.edu/artworks/69109, which returned HTTP 200 and redirected to /artworks/69109/tankard-hanap-with-tulips-hyacinths-roses-and-carnations. The page then loaded https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/9c807e61-db58-3f5f-d208-c1786ccbf520/full/843,/0/default.jpg by itself. page.on('response') captured that response: HTTP 200, image/jpeg, Cantaloupe/4.1.7 behind Cloudflare (cf-cache-status HIT), Last-Modified 'Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:11:07 GMT', 123301 bytes. It was the only IIIF response for this image during the visit. I sent no direct or crafted request to the IIIF server and made no retries. The bytes were saved unchanged, and the response headers are kept in tools/receipts/unsigned/iznik-tankard-tulips-hyacinths.json in the repository (not served on the site).", "image_credit": "Digital reproduction from the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0 Public Domain Designation, per AIC open-access policy for public-domain works).", "modifications": "None. The bytes are exactly what the AIC IIIF endpoint served to the artwork page at 843 px wide: a progressive JPEG (SOF2), RGB, JFIF 1.02, with no EXIF and no embedded ICC profile. sips reports 'sRGB IEC61966-2.1', but that is its assumed default; the file has no APP2 marker. No crop, resize, recolour or re-encode.", "rights_note": "The AIC artwork API marks this work public domain (is_public_domain true, copyright_notice null; API info.license_text says the data is CC0 except `description`). Unlike some AIC image records, this image API record (title 'J28225-int') has credit_line null, so the CC0 label comes from the AIC open-access policy page instead. That page (fetched 2026-10-09) says images of works 'believed to be in the public domain' are 'made available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) designation'. The policy also says 'a download button is included on pages when the artwork image is in the public domain', and the artwork page's HTML has a 'Download image' button. The bytes came directly from the museum's IIIF server, not through Wikimedia Commons, so there is no third-party photo licence.", "museum_alt_text": "White ceramic cup with red and blue flowers and square handle.", "alt": "A tall white cylindrical tankard photographed from one side against a plain grey background. On the right is a squared-off handle made of flat straight strips, outlined in blue and painted with blue wavy lines. Blue bands at the rim and the base hold a row of white scalloped shapes, each with a red dot. On the white body, long curving dark stems carry sprays of small blue bell-shaped flowers. Two large red flowers with layered petals sit near the top, one blue tulip stands in the middle, and small red flowers and long green leaves rise from the base. Fine grey cracks run through the glaze at the rim and down the body, and a rough tan band edges the foot.", "looking_prompts": [ "Find the single blue tulip in the middle of the tankard, then follow its stem down to the leaves at the base.", "Compare the two large red flowers near the rim with the small red flowers near the foot. How are their shapes different?" ], "looking_prompt": "Find the single blue tulip in the middle of the tankard, then follow its stem down to the leaves at the base.", "context_source": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/69109", "context_sources": [ "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/69109", "https://www.artic.edu/open-access/open-access-images", "https://www.aseq.it/arte-orientale/31725-handbook-of-the-department-of-oriental-art.html", "https://www.turkishminute.com/2026/03/20/turkey-pushes-to-bring-history-home-through-cultural-diplomacy/" ], "text_licence_note": "The AIC API fields are CC0 except `description`, which is CC BY 4.0 (API info.license_text, 2026-10-09), so paraphrase and link it rather than copying it. The description identifies the motif as hyacinths and carnations with blue tulips and red roses, and suggests the tankard may also have held flowers. The Handbook quotation in provenance_note is a short factual citation from an AIC publication. The Turkish Minute/AFP article is copyrighted news, so cite and link it only.", "sensitivities": "Secular object: a drinking vessel (AIC classification 'drinking vessel'), which the AIC description says may also have served as a flower vase. It is not funerary and not human remains, and no sacred or ritual use is stated in any AIC source (inscriptions null). The provenance is thin: provenance_text is null, and the tankard reached the AIC by about 1913 in trustee Frank W. Gunsaulus's gift. How and when it left Turkey is unrecorded, so I could not determine whether its export followed the rules of the time. As far as the sources show, this is not a colonial-era removal from a colonised territory; it would have left the Ottoman Empire before 1913. Turkey does actively pursue Ottoman-era Iznik ceramics: per AFP (Turkish Minute, 2026-03-20) it is seeking the return of 'dozens of İznik tiles held by France's Louvre Museum' and recovered two 16th-century Iznik tiles from Britain in March 2026. Those claims concern architectural tiles. I found no claim on this tankard or against the AIC (two web searches, 2026-10-09). The object is currently off view (AIC is_on_view false).", "verified_at": "2026-10-09T17:27:21.222725+00:00", "capture_log": "tools/receipts/unsigned/iznik-tankard-tulips-hyacinths.json" }, { "id": "suzani-uzbekistan-tashkent", "museum_id": 248380, "accession_number": "2019.794", "title": "Suzani (large hanging or cover)", "display_title": "Suzani (large hanging or cover)", "artist": "Uzbekistan, probably Tashkent", "artist_display": "Uzbekistan, probably Tashkent", "maker_note": "Maker unrecorded. The AIC record has artist_title null, and artist_display gives only a place ('Uzbekistan, probably Tashkent'), not a person. The AIC description (CC BY 4.0, paraphrased here) says suzanis were embroidered by urban Uzbek and Tajik women, often young women making them for their dowry. A designer called a kalamkash drew the pattern on the joined cloth, which was then separated so that each embroiderer could work her own length. It says this hanging is made of four lengths and shows different embroiderers' hands, most visibly in the central blossom, where details are black on one half and lighter brown on the other. No one is named. The same description places such suzanis in eastern Uzbekistan, 'particularly near the oasis cities of Bukhara and Kokand', and the record does not reconcile this with the 'probably Tashkent' attribution.", "date": "1840/1890", "medium": "Cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk; pieced", "object_dimensions": "221 × 168.9 cm (87 × 66 1/2 in.)", "place_of_origin": "Uzbekistan", "style_title": null, "classification_title": "embroidery", "department_title": "Textiles", "source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago", "url": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/248380", "api_source": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/248380", "is_public_domain": true, "copyright_notice": null, "museum_image_id": "a2c0e179-5afc-f007-8846-f52c40c68431", "museum_image_api": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/images/a2c0e179-5afc-f007-8846-f52c40c68431", "museum_image_credit_line": "CC0 Public Domain Designation", "museum_iiif_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/a2c0e179-5afc-f007-8846-f52c40c68431/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "credit_line": "Gift of Susan R. Lewis", "provenance_text": "Norman L. Rice, Chicago, about 1930; by descent to his daughter, Susan R. Lewis, Evanston, IL; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.", "provenance_note": "The recorded chain starts in Chicago 'about 1930' with Norman L. Rice. The AIC sources do not say where, when or from whom he acquired it, or how and when it left Central Asia. No dealer, export record or earlier owner is given. The AIC API has publication_history null. Its exhibition_history lists only 'Embroidered Traditions from Morocco to Afghanistan', May 2, 2026–Jan. 25, 2027, at the Art Institute of Chicago. A web search (2026-10-09) returned a 1933 Art Institute catalogue PDF (publications.artic.edu, AIC1933CoPPntSclpt) whose search snippet lists a 'Norman L. Rice' as Associate Dean of the Art Institute. The PDF returned HTTP 403 to curl and to a fetch, so that line was not read. Neither the AIC record nor this check establishes whether he is the same person as the owner named in the provenance. Couldn't determine.", "file": "suzani-uzbekistan-tashkent.jpg", "image": "/assets/unsigned/suzani-uzbekistan-tashkent.jpg", "width": 843, "height": 1058, "bytes": 522184, "sha256": "30cb3d4296ca672bdef643cdb0fde89d5047776cbf0a421187bdcef322084ab2", "license": "CC0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/", "rights_policy": "https://www.artic.edu/open-access/open-access-images", "image_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/a2c0e179-5afc-f007-8846-f52c40c68431/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "delivery_source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago IIIF image server", "download_receipt": "Captured 2026-10-09 17:24:14 UTC with headless Chromium (Playwright 1.59.1, local install) in a single visitor-style load of https://www.artic.edu/artworks/248380. The page returned HTTP 200 and redirected to /artworks/248380/suzani-large-hanging-or-cover. The page itself requested the primary image at 843 px: the main currentSrc was full/843,/0/default.jpg, chosen from a srcset of 200w/400w/843w/1686w. That response was HTTP 200 image/jpeg from Cloudflare. Its Last-Modified ('Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:24:14 GMT') equalled its Date, and it had no ETag or Content-Length header. Its body was taken from page.on('response') and saved unchanged. No direct, crafted or repeated request was made to the IIIF server. The same page load also fetched this image at 400 px (123,098 bytes, sha256 4adc0bb1c7e8ebf7aa7fe10e539d48a19186aa5ef9f48a0d06d439483fab98e5) and alternate image 71c37276-bd20-cac9-6ffb-1771ead07d18 at 400 px; neither is used. The capture log is kept at tools/receipts/unsigned/suzani-uzbekistan-tashkent.json in the repository (not served on the site); the capture script was not preserved.", "image_credit": "Digital reproduction from the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0 Public Domain Designation).", "modifications": "None. Bytes saved exactly as the AIC IIIF endpoint served them to the artwork page at 843 px wide (progressive JPEG, RGB, no EXIF, no embedded ICC profile). No crop, resize, recolour or re-encode.", "rights_note": "The AIC artwork API marks this work public domain (is_public_domain true, copyright_notice null). The AIC image API record for the reproduction (IM039960-int) carries credit_line 'CC0 Public Domain Designation'. The bytes came directly from the museum's IIIF server through the museum's own page, not through Wikimedia Commons, so there is no third-party photo licence.", "museum_alt_text": "A work made of cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk; pieced.", "alt": "A tall rectangular embroidered cloth photographed flat on a grey background. Rows of large rounded red blossoms almost cover its golden-tan cotton ground. Each blossom is edged with a green leafy stem and sits above a small pale-green disc on a dark stalk. A broad outer band, two blossoms deep, frames an inner rectangle. At the centre of the inner rectangle, a thin eight-pointed star outline holds a ring of eight blossoms around a scalloped red rosette with thin striped rays, and a faint vertical line runs through the rosette. Smaller motifs fill the gaps, among them black-and-cream zigzag-striped pods and small red, cream and pale-blue flowers and leaves. A narrow border of small red flowers on a vine runs around the edge, finished with a dark red binding.", "looking_prompts": [ "Find the ring of eight blossoms inside the star. Which way does each one's small pale disc point?", "Look at the rosette at the very centre and compare the thin rays on its left half with those on its right. Where does the thread colour change?" ], "looking_prompt": "Find the ring of eight blossoms inside the star. Which way does each one's small pale disc point?", "context_source": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/248380", "context_sources": [ "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/248380", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Tashkent", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzani_(textile)" ], "text_licence_note": "The AIC API fields are CC0 except `description`, which is CC BY 4.0 (API info.license_text, 2026-10-09). The maker and making notes above paraphrase it; credit the Art Institute of Chicago and link the record, and don't copy it verbatim. The Wikipedia extracts used only for the sensitivity context are CC BY-SA 4.0, so paraphrase and link them. They are not museum sources.", "sensitivities": "Not human remains. The AIC record states no funerary or sacred use. The AIC description (CC BY 4.0, paraphrased) presents suzanis as domestic hangings and covers that young women embroidered for their dowry. Wikipedia's 'Suzani (textile)' adds, without a museum source, that brides presented them to the groom on the wedding day, which is a family and ceremonial use, not a religious one. Colonial era: the AIC date range 1840/1890 straddles the Russian Empire's capture and annexation of Tashkent in June 1865 after the siege of Tashkent (Wikipedia, 'Siege of Tashkent'). Whether this piece was made before or after 1865 couldn't be determined. Provenance gap: the AIC provenance_text begins only with Norman L. Rice in Chicago 'about 1930', so how, when and from whom it left Central Asia is unrecorded, and no export permit is recorded. Attribution: the AIC description says the embroiderers were women and names none, so credit 'makers unrecorded' rather than implying the anonymity was chosen. Restitution: no claim on this suzani was found (2 WebSearch calls, 2026-10-09; the second call ran several sub-queries internally). It is on view now in the AIC exhibition 'Embroidered Traditions from Morocco to Afghanistan' (May 2, 2026–Jan. 25, 2027, per AIC exhibition_history).", "verified_at": "2026-10-09T17:27:46.942755+00:00", "capture_log": "tools/receipts/unsigned/suzani-uzbekistan-tashkent.json" }, { "id": "ceremonial-hanging-palepai", "museum_id": 180298, "accession_number": "2002.914", "title": "Ceremonial Hanging (Palepai)", "display_title": "Ceremonial Hanging (Palepai)", "artist": "Paminggir", "artist_display": "Paminggir people\nLampung area, South Sumatra, Indonesia", "maker_note": "Maker unrecorded. The AIC record names a people (artist_title 'Paminggir') and a region ('Lampung area, South Sumatra, Indonesia'), not an individual weaver; artist_display reads 'Paminggir people'. Per R5, show the culture and place exactly as AIC does; never invent a name.", "date": "19th century", "medium": "Cotton, silk, and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped bast fiber (probably ramie), plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts, main warp fringe", "object_dimensions": "Without fringe: 67 × 296.6 cm (26 3/8 × 116 3/4 in.)", "place_of_origin": "Indonesia", "style_title": "indonesian", "classification_title": "textile", "department_title": "Textiles", "source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago", "url": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/180298", "api_source": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/180298", "is_public_domain": true, "copyright_notice": null, "museum_image_id": "ca9c6ee4-58a1-38fa-362f-b00f9a5996d4", "museum_image_api": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/images/ca9c6ee4-58a1-38fa-362f-b00f9a5996d4", "museum_image_credit_line": "CC0 Public Domain Designation", "museum_iiif_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/ca9c6ee4-58a1-38fa-362f-b00f9a5996d4/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "credit_line": "Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection", "provenance_text": "E.M. (Pete) Bakwin, Chicago, IL, by Jan. 22, 2002 [E.M. Bakwin Collection of Indonesian Textiles, inventory EMB-1518-R; incoming receipt RX23940, Jan. 22, 2003; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.", "provenance_note": "The AIC provenance_text says E.M. Bakwin held the cloth 'by Jan. 22, 2002' but dates the incoming receipt RX23940 'Jan. 22, 2003', while the gift year and accession number (2002.914) say 2002. That mismatch is in AIC's own text and was not resolved here (couldn't determine which date is right). Nothing is recorded before Bakwin: no weaver, first owner, findspot, dealer, date or route out of Lampung, and no export record for a cloth AIC dates to the 19th century. API publication_history lists Brigitte Khan Majlis in AIC Museum Studies 33, no. 2 (2007), pp. 33-34, cat. 5, and Folayemi Wilson in the 2025 exhibition catalogue On Loss and Absence, pp. 74-75, fig. 5. Neither publication was read for this record.", "file": "ceremonial-hanging-palepai.jpg", "image": "/assets/unsigned/ceremonial-hanging-palepai.jpg", "width": 843, "height": 229, "bytes": 72842, "sha256": "a849212fab16e9b53acf585d3784cc89782eaa6437c6f11530a48a494aef6f10", "license": "CC0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/", "rights_policy": "https://www.artic.edu/open-access/open-access-images", "image_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/ca9c6ee4-58a1-38fa-362f-b00f9a5996d4/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "delivery_source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago IIIF image server", "download_receipt": "Captured 2026-10-09 17:24:08 UTC with headless Chromium (Playwright 1.59.1, local install; UA 'HeadlessChrome/147.0.7727.15'). There was one visitor-style load of https://www.artic.edu/artworks/180298 (HTTP 200, title 'Ceremonial Hanging (Palepai) | The Art Institute of Chicago', viewport 1440x900, waitUntil networkidle plus 4 s). For image_id ca9c6ee4-58a1-38fa-362f-b00f9a5996d4 the page made exactly one IIIF request, full/843,/0/default.jpg. Its srcset offered 200w, 400w, 843w and 1686w, and its sizes attribute picked 843px. The response was HTTP 200 image/jpeg, with server Cantaloupe/4.1.7 behind Cloudflare (cf-cache-status HIT, age 913517) and Last-Modified 'Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:32:51 GMT'. The body was taken from that response through page.on('response'). No separate request and no retry were made. The bytes were saved unchanged. Capture log: tools/receipts/unsigned/ceremonial-hanging-palepai.json in the repository (not served on the site). The raw response body (its sha256 equals this file's) and the capture script were not preserved.", "image_credit": "Digital reproduction from the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0 Public Domain Designation).", "modifications": "None. Bytes saved exactly as the AIC IIIF endpoint served them at 843 px wide: progressive JFIF JPEG, RGB, no EXIF, and no embedded ICC profile according to Pillow. No crop, resize, recolour or re-encode. At 843x229 this is about 7% of the 11432x3112 master (AIC image API), so the small deck figures are only about 30 px tall.", "rights_note": "The AIC artwork API marks this work public domain (is_public_domain true, copyright_notice null). The AIC image API record for the reproduction carries credit_line 'CC0 Public Domain Designation'. The bytes came directly from the museum's IIIF server, as loaded by the public artwork page, not through Wikimedia Commons, so there is no third-party photo licence.", "museum_alt_text": "Large rectangle of fabric, geometric shapes depicting ship and people, in red, blue and yellow.", "alt": "A long, narrow woven cloth photographed flat on a grey ground, about four times as wide as it is tall, in dark red, golden yellow, dark blue and beige. Two large dark-red ships sit side by side. Each long hull is dotted with white and carries a row of yellow heart shapes. At both ends of each hull, tall prow and stern forms rise steeply outward, edged with stepped stripes of red, yellow and dark blue. On each yellow deck, a dark-blue standing figure is at either end. Inside them are yellow shapes on short legs, each under a red parasol shape, and at the centre are two dark-blue blocks dotted with white under a tall striped frame. Yellow hooked and zigzag patterns fill the band below the ships. Loose threads stick up from the top edge, and a fringe hangs from the right end.", "looking_prompts": [ "Find the red parasol shapes on each deck. What stands beneath each one, and what stands beside it?", "Compare the two ships. Do their decks hold the same figures in the same order, or can you find a difference?" ], "looking_prompt": "Find the red parasol shapes on each deck. What stands beneath each one, and what stands beside it?", "context_source": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/180298", "context_sources": [ "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/180298", "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/images/ca9c6ee4-58a1-38fa-362f-b00f9a5996d4", "https://trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/individual-textiles-and-textile-types/secular-ceremonies-and-rituals/ship-cloth-from-lampung-sumatra-indonesia", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampung" ], "text_licence_note": "The AIC API fields are CC0 except `description`, which is CC BY 4.0 (API info.license_text, 2026-10-09). Paraphrase and link it rather than copying. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA 4.0, and the TRC Leiden page is © its publisher, so paraphrase and link both only. The Majlis 2007 and Wilson 2025 publications were not read, and their licences were not checked.", "sensitivities": "Ceremonial textile with funerary associations; it is not human remains. The AIC description (CC BY 4.0, paraphrased here) gives the context. Palepai belonged to the Paminggir aristocracy and marked status, perhaps descent. Owning one went with titles, a claim to leadership and other privileges. They were used at rites of passage, including marriage, death and accession to rank, and the red ships are read as the ancestors' upper world, reached by the ship of death. AIC showed this cloth in 'On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival', Sept. 6, 2025 to Mar. 15, 2026 (API exhibition_history). Whether it is held as sacred or restricted today couldn't be determined: no AIC source states any viewing restriction, and no community statement was found. No findspot is recorded, so the record does not say whether it came from a burial or funeral setting. Its provenance starts with E.M. Bakwin, Chicago, by 2002. Nothing explains how a 19th-century aristocratic heirloom left Lampung. In that period Lampung was under Dutch colonial control (Wikipedia 'Lampung', fetched 2026-10-09, says the Dutch annexed it in 1752; that is a tertiary source and the date was not checked against primary sources). No export record appears in the AIC sources. No restitution or repatriation claim on this palepai, or on Lampung ship cloths in general, was found. One web search on 2026-10-09 returned only museum and dealer listings, and finding nothing does not prove that no claim exists.", "verified_at": "2026-10-09T17:27:11.351799+00:00", "capture_log": "tools/receipts/unsigned/ceremonial-hanging-palepai.json" }, { "id": "bushong-womans-overskirt", "museum_id": 69510, "accession_number": "1987.163", "title": "Woman's Overskirt", "display_title": "Woman’s Overskirt", "artist": "Kuba", "artist_display": "Bushong, Kuba\nMushenge, Democratic Republic of the Congo", "maker_note": "Maker unrecorded. The AIC record names a culture and a place, not a person: artist_title 'Kuba', style_title 'kuba kingdom', and artist_display 'Bushong, Kuba' over 'Mushenge, Democratic Republic of the Congo'. The artwork page lists Culture 'Kuba' and Place 'Democratic Republic of the Congo (Object made in:)'. No individual maker is named in the API, on the artwork page, or in the provenance. Who made or embroidered it: couldn't determine.", "date": "19th century", "medium": "Raffia, plain weave; pieced; embroidered in lateral looping, and stem and running stitches cut to form pile; couching; joined by buttonhole, pearl, and trammed twisted buttonhole stitches; edged in lateral looping stitches", "object_dimensions": "162.1 × 72.2 cm (63 3/4 × 28 3/8 in.)", "place_of_origin": "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "style_title": "kuba kingdom", "classification_title": "textile", "department_title": "Textiles", "source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago", "url": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/69510", "api_source": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/69510", "is_public_domain": true, "copyright_notice": null, "museum_image_id": "d461b4be-3f7b-0eee-a3fa-d4da4e14e8b8", "museum_image_api": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/images/d461b4be-3f7b-0eee-a3fa-d4da4e14e8b8", "museum_image_credit_line": null, "museum_iiif_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d461b4be-3f7b-0eee-a3fa-d4da4e14e8b8/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "credit_line": "Tillie C. Cohn Fund and Tillie C. Cohn Fund in memory of her parents, Max and Rose N. Cohn", "provenance_text": "Probably private collection, Belgium [this and the following according to letter from A. Moraga, Apr. 9, 1985; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Andrés Moraga, Berkeley, CA, by Apr. 9, 1985 [incoming receipt May 11, 1987]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1987.", "provenance_note": "The AIC provenance rests on one source: a letter from the dealer Andrés Moraga (Berkeley, CA) dated April 9, 1985, held as a copy in the AIC curatorial file and not public. That letter says the skirt was 'probably' in a private collection in Belgium. The Belgian owner is not named. Neither the API nor the artwork page records when, where, from whom or how the skirt was acquired in the Congo, when it left the Congo, or when it reached Belgium, and neither cites an export permit. Moraga had it by April 9, 1985; the AIC incoming receipt is dated May 11, 1987; the accession number is 1987.163. That leaves a gap of up to about a century between the date given ('19th century'; the page says 'Made 1801–1900') and the first documented owner (1985). Belgium was the colonial power in the Congo, first as Leopold II's Congo Free State from 1885 and then as the Belgian Congo until independence in 1960. That is general history, not stated in the AIC record. So a colonial-era removal is plausible but not documented either way.", "file": "bushong-womans-overskirt.jpg", "image": "/assets/unsigned/bushong-womans-overskirt.jpg", "width": 843, "height": 407, "bytes": 116398, "sha256": "e0830d885a73f7776e0db86e6eaca5b5bc3a9637436e063e6c59fa43a427ed2f", "license": "CC0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/", "rights_policy": "https://www.artic.edu/open-access/open-access-images", "image_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d461b4be-3f7b-0eee-a3fa-d4da4e14e8b8/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "delivery_source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago IIIF image server", "download_receipt": "Captured 2026-10-09 17:28:35 UTC with headless Chromium (Playwright 1.59.1, local install; viewport 1440x900, DPR 1). There was one page load of https://www.artic.edu/artworks/69510 (HTTP 200, title 'Woman's Overskirt | The Art Institute of Chicago'), plus a short scroll. The bytes are the IIIF response that the artwork page itself requested, recorded with page.on('response'). No request was made directly to the IIIF server, and nothing was retried. The page's srcset offered 200w, 400w, 843w and 1686w; the browser chose 843w (currentSrc …/full/843,/0/default.jpg, naturalWidth 843, naturalHeight 407), and that was the only IIIF response for this image_id. Response: HTTP 200, content-type image/jpeg, server cloudflare, cf-cache-status HIT, x-powered-by Cantaloupe/4.1.7, Last-Modified 'Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:28:35 GMT' (the same as the response Date, so it shows when the response was served, not the file's history). The bytes were saved unchanged; the sha256 of the captured body and of the saved file are identical. The receipt is kept at tools/receipts/unsigned/bushong-womans-overskirt.json in the repository (not served on the site).", "image_credit": "Digital reproduction from the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0 Public Domain Designation).", "modifications": "None. Bytes saved exactly as the AIC IIIF endpoint served them at 843 px wide, full region (progressive JPEG, JFIF 1.02, RGB, no EXIF, no ICC profile). No crop, resize, recolour or re-encode.", "rights_note": "The AIC artwork API marks this work public domain (is_public_domain true, copyright_notice null). The AIC image API record for this reproduction (title 'IM015710-int') has credit_line null and copyright_notice null, unlike some other AIC image records that carry 'CC0 Public Domain Designation'. The public artwork page shows the label 'CC0 Public Domain Designation' directly under the image, and AIC's open-access policy applies CC0 to images of public-domain works. The bytes came directly from the museum's IIIF server, not through Wikimedia Commons, so there is no third-party photo licence.", "museum_alt_text": "A work made of raffia, plain weave; pieced; embroidered in lateral looping, and stem and running stitches cut to form pile; couching; joined by buttonhole, pearl, and trammed twisted buttonhole stitches; edged in lateral looping stitches.", "alt": "A long raffia overskirt laid flat on a pale grey ground, more than twice as wide as it is tall. The large central field is deep red-brown, covered in rows of lighter rust L-shapes and chevrons set on the diagonal, with small dark rectangles and dots between them. A beige border runs along the top, the bottom and the rounded right end, with dark brown hooked lines winding through it; at the right end the border changes to a denser pattern of interlocking squares. Near the middle of the top border, a small square of dark and ochre triangles breaks the pattern. At the left end, a plain, mottled rust panel with no pattern sits between the top and bottom border strips, which run past it like two tabs.", "looking_prompts": [ "Follow the beige border from the strip at the top left, round the curved right end, and back along the bottom. Where does the winding line turn into a different pattern?", "Find the small square of dark and ochre triangles near the middle of the top border. Can you find any other triangles like it on the skirt?" ], "looking_prompt": "Follow the beige border from the strip at the top left, round the curved right end, and back along the bottom. Where does the winding line turn into a different pattern?", "context_source": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/69510", "context_sources": [ "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/69510", "https://exhibitions.psu.edu/s/african-brilliance/page/catalogue-36", "https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/12/24/belgium-plans-to-hand-back-colonial-loot-to-dr-congo" ], "text_licence_note": "The AIC API fields are CC0 except `description`, which is CC BY 4.0 (API info.license_text, 2026-10-09). This record's description and short_description are both null, so no CC BY text is used. museum_alt_text is the API's thumbnail.alt_text (CC0). The AIC 2025 exhibition catalogue 'On Loss and Absence' was not read; its licence couldn't be determined. The Palmer Museum of Art (Penn State) catalogue page and The Art Newspaper article are third-party text whose licence wasn't checked; they are paraphrased and linked only, never copied.", "sensitivities": "Funerary context, general to the type and not documented for this object. According to the Palmer Museum of Art's 'African Brilliance' catalogue 36 (https://exhibitions.psu.edu/s/african-brilliance/page/catalogue-36), decorated Kuba raffia textiles are given by family and clan at funerals, shown while the body lies in state, and then wrapped around or buried with the body, or kept by the family. The AIC chose this overskirt for 'On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival' (Sept. 6, 2025–Mar. 15, 2026) and illustrated it as fig. 2 in the catalogue introduction (API exhibition_history and publication_history). What that catalogue says about it: couldn't determine (not read; the AIC exhibition page returned 403 to the fetch tool). Whether this skirt was ever worn at a funeral, buried or exhumed: couldn't determine. It is not human remains and contains none, per the medium line (raffia and embroidery only). Sacred or restricted use for this specific object: couldn't determine; no AIC source mentions any. Colonial era: it is dated 19th century, and its first recorded owner is a 'probably' Belgian private collection named only in a 1985 dealer letter. There is no record of acquisition or export from the Congo, which was under Belgian rule from 1885 to 1960 (general history). Restitution: no claim on this object was found (two web searches, 2026-10-09). Belgium's 2021 plan with the DRC covers federal (state-owned) collections, not privately held or already exported objects (The Art Newspaper, 2021-12-24, https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/12/24/belgium-plans-to-hand-back-colonial-loot-to-dr-congo), so it doesn't reach this skirt. No AIC statement on the object's restitution status was found. Suggest the room text names the provenance gap plainly rather than presenting the skirt as cleanly sourced.", "verified_at": "2026-10-09T17:31:22.248545+00:00", "capture_log": "tools/receipts/unsigned/bushong-womans-overskirt.json" }, { "id": "sunburst-quilt-kentucky", "museum_id": 158433, "accession_number": "2001.461", "title": "Sunburst Quilt", "display_title": "Sunburst Quilt", "artist": "Kentucky, United States", "artist_display": "Kentucky, United States", "maker_note": "Maker unrecorded. The AIC record names no artist (artist_title null, artist_id null, artist_ids []); artist_display gives only a place, 'Kentucky, United States', and place_of_origin is 'Kentucky'. inscriptions, description and short_description are all null. No signature, initials or inscription is visible in the 843 px image (my observation; the back of the quilt is not shown). Who made it, and whether one person or several, could not be determined from the AIC sources.", "date": "c. 1820", "medium": "Cotton, plain weaves; printed; pieced; backed with cotton, plain weave; cotton batting; quilted with cotton thread", "object_dimensions": "220.8 × 169.3 cm (83 3/4 × 66 5/8 in.)", "place_of_origin": "Kentucky", "style_title": null, "classification_title": "textile", "department_title": "Textiles", "source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago", "url": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/158433", "api_source": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/158433", "is_public_domain": true, "copyright_notice": null, "museum_image_id": "e12cf9dd-102b-9505-a05f-6f95a88ef08f", "museum_image_api": "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/images/e12cf9dd-102b-9505-a05f-6f95a88ef08f", "museum_image_credit_line": null, "museum_iiif_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/e12cf9dd-102b-9505-a05f-6f95a88ef08f/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "credit_line": "Gift of Shelly Zegart", "provenance_text": "Shelly Zegart (1941-2025; born Rochelle Weiss) and Kenny Zegart (1940-2025), Louisville, KY, by Sept. 7, 2001 [incoming receipt RX23406, Sept. 7, 2001; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2001.", "provenance_note": "The AIC provenance_text begins with Shelly and Kenny Zegart, Louisville, KY, 'by Sept. 7, 2001' (incoming receipt RX23406), and ends with the gift to the Art Institute in 2001 (fiscal_year 2002). The provenance_text does not name the donor; the credit line names Shelly Zegart alone ('Gift of Shelly Zegart'). No owner before the Zegarts is recorded, so where the quilt was between about 1820 and its arrival with them is unrecorded. The AIC publication_history lists Cathy Gaines Florence, Collecting Quilts: Investing in America's Heritage (American Quilter's Society, 1985), and a 2025 New York Times obituary of Shelly Zegart. I have not seen the 1985 book, so I could not determine what it says about the quilt or who owned it then. The AIC exhibition_history lists 'Exploring Quilts: Art, History and Craftsmanship' (2004) and 'Fabric of a New Nation: American Needlework and Textiles, 1776-1840' (2011-2012), both in the museum's textile galleries. Folkstreams says Shelly Zegart co-founded the Kentucky Quilt Project in 1981, which it calls the nation's first statewide quilt-documentation project (https://folkstreams.net/filmmakers/zegart-shelly, read 2026-10-09).", "file": "sunburst-quilt-kentucky.jpg", "image": "/assets/unsigned/sunburst-quilt-kentucky.jpg", "width": 843, "height": 1043, "bytes": 993478, "sha256": "e3b0fbe559d81829b1be569eeddaa0317cc3e059f86c049f439bc3f66f2e3b6e", "license": "CC0", "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/", "rights_policy": "https://www.artic.edu/open-access/open-access-images", "image_source": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/e12cf9dd-102b-9505-a05f-6f95a88ef08f/full/843,/0/default.jpg", "delivery_source_name": "Art Institute of Chicago IIIF image server", "download_receipt": "Captured 2026-10-09 17:27:45-17:27:53 UTC with headless Chromium 147 (Playwright 1.59.1, local install), viewport 1440x900. One ordinary page.goto of https://www.artic.edu/artworks/158433 (HTTP 200, title 'Sunburst Quilt | The Art Institute of Chicago'). The page itself requested exactly one IIIF image for this image_id: the 843 px size, HTTP 200 image/jpeg at 17:27:47.852 UTC, Last-Modified 'Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:27:47 GMT' (the same as the response Date), Cache-Control 'public, max-age=2592000, no-transform'. The page's srcset offered 200, 400, 843 and 1686 px, and its currentSrc was the 843 px URL (naturalWidth 843, naturalHeight 1043). The bytes were taken from that response with page.on('response') and saved unchanged. There was no direct request, no retry and no Wikimedia Commons fallback. Capture log: tools/receipts/unsigned/sunburst-quilt-kentucky.json in the repository (not served on the site).", "image_credit": "Digital reproduction from the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0, per the AIC open access policy for public-domain works).", "modifications": "None. Bytes saved exactly as the AIC IIIF endpoint served them at 843 px wide (progressive JPEG, RGB, JFIF, no EXIF, no embedded ICC profile). No crop, resize, recolour or re-encode.", "rights_note": "The AIC artwork API marks this work public domain (is_public_domain true, copyright_notice null), and the AIC open access policy says images of public-domain works are offered under CC0 (rights_policy, read 2026-10-09). Unlike some AIC image records, the image API record for this reproduction (E39865) has credit_line null, so the 'CC0 Public Domain Designation' label rests on the artwork record and the policy, not on an image-level field. I did not check the label on the artwork page during the capture. The bytes came directly from the museum's IIIF server, not through Wikimedia Commons, so there is no third-party photo licence.", "museum_alt_text": "A work made of cotton, plain weaves; printed; pieced; backed with cotton, plain weave; cotton batting; quilted with cotton thread.", "alt": "A rectangular quilt with rounded corners, laid flat on a black background. Six square blocks sit in two columns of three. Each block holds a large round sunburst: wedge-shaped pieces of tan print and blue-flowered print radiate from a small eight-pointed star of tan print at the centre. Four blocks have a background of small blue-and-tan print. The upper-right and lower-left blocks have a dark blue print scattered with small white leaf shapes. Dark red strips divide the rows, and a dark red zigzag runs down each side border.", "looking_prompts": [ "Find the two blocks set on the dark blue print. Where do they sit in relation to each other?", "Follow the dark red zigzag down the left border. Where does the fabric behind it change?" ], "looking_prompt": "Find the two blocks set on the dark blue print. Where do they sit in relation to each other?", "context_source": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/158433", "context_sources": [ "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/158433", "https://folkstreams.net/filmmakers/zegart-shelly" ], "text_licence_note": "The AIC API fields are CC0 except `description`, which is CC BY 4.0 (API info.license_text, 2026-10-09). This record's description and short_description are null, so all AIC text used here is CC0. The Folkstreams page is third-party text, so paraphrase and link it only.", "sensitivities": "A domestic bedcover (AIC term_titles include 'needlework - quilt' and 'bedcover'). The AIC sources record no funerary use, no human remains and no sacred use. Place of origin is Kentucky, and every recorded owner is in Louisville, KY, or Chicago, so no cross-border or colonial-era removal is recorded. The recorded owners are the collectors Shelly and Kenny Zegart; the 2001 gift is credited to Shelly Zegart. No owner before them is recorded. No restitution or ownership claim on this quilt was found (two web searches, 2026-10-09). The maker is unrecorded, and the AIC sources say nothing about who made it or in what circumstances. That could not be determined, and the page should not supply a maker or a story.", "verified_at": "2026-10-09T17:31:32.033641+00:00", "capture_log": "tools/receipts/unsigned/sunburst-quilt-kentucky.json" } ] }