All research is published openly under CC BY 4.0 and permanently archived on Zenodo. Gating provenance findings behind paid access contradicts the stewardship thesis this practice is built on — the Library exists regardless of whether any of it leads to a consultation engagement.
Provenance Intelligence Series
Provenance Intelligence Series, Volume I — Technical Attribution
The foundational technical methodology — construction analysis, hallmark systems, and material evidence as the first pillar of the Four-Field Audit.
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Provenance Intelligence Series, Volume II — Stewardship and Ethical Audit (v1.4)
The stewardship thesis in full — the ethical framework governing when a finding is mature enough to publish, and why restitution-relevant research is never gated.
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Rapid-Response Papers
The Halifax Gap: Emotional Provenance Premium and Epistemic Closure in the John Jacob Astor IV Pocket Watch
A pre-sale attribution analysis later validated by the piece's actual auction outcome — a rare case where the methodology's confidence call was tested against a real market result.
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The remaining Rapid-Response papers (RR-01–RR-03) are published and live on Zenodo. Their full citations are being reconciled against the master publication record before final entries are added here — in the meantime, all deposits are visible on the Papillon Pearl Labs Zenodo profile directly.
Working Papers & Case Studies
Recovering the Lost Goldsmith: Franz Daschek, the Collapse of Empire, and the Case for…
A maker-attribution case study tracing a signed Art Nouveau piece back through a goldsmith whose own history was nearly lost to the historical record.
The Evesham Diamond Ring: Genesis Provenance and the Pricing of Certainty
What a documented origin is actually worth at the point of sale — genesis provenance treated as a priced attribute rather than a narrative one.
Beyond Attribution: Provenance Intelligence Studies as an Integrative…
Names and constitutes Provenance Intelligence Studies as a discipline in its own right — its object of study, its evidentiary standards, and its relationship to adjacent fields.
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GFP Applied to Tudor Portraiture (in progress)
Extending the facial-continuity attribution methodology developed for jewelry provenance into portrait identification across centuries of documented descent.
Object, Emotion, and Commerce (in progress — monograph, 194pp)
A book-length treatment of how emotional and evidentiary provenance interact in the antique jewelry market.
Adjacent Work
Papillon Pearl Labs also maintains a body of AI-governance research (E-EPL, CBIL, and related frameworks) developed alongside the provenance methodology. This work is published openly but sits outside this Library's core jewelry-provenance scope — the two framework papers named above are listed below; see the full Zenodo profile for the complete corpus.
Papillon Pearl Labs White Paper V1 — The CBIL Protocol
The Cognitive Boundary Interaction Loop as a protocol — the method behind how contested conclusions are engaged rather than contradicted.
AI Behavioral Framework — E-EPL v2 and the CBIL Protocol Standard
Emotional–Epistemic Provenance Layering in its second version, alongside the CBIL protocol standard.