Cipher: Antique Identifier

What is it? Who designed it? What's it worth? Cipher answers all three.

Point your camera at a chair, a lamp, a vase, a watch, an antique — anything with deliberate design — and Cipher names the piece, the designer behind it, and what comparable pieces are listing for right now.

IDENTIFY
Cipher reads form and detail to name the specific piece — an Eames Lounge Chair, a Poul Henningsen lamp — and the style it belongs to. Not just "a chair."

WHAT IT'S WORTH
See an estimated price range based on real, current market listings — not a made-up number. Compare similar pieces for sale so you know where you stand before you buy, sell, or walk past it.

THE DESIGNER AND THE STORY
Find out who designed it, and explore more of their work in open museum collections. Cipher draws on design history and international archives to explain where a piece comes from, how it was made, and why it lasts.

LISTEN INSTEAD OF READING
Every result can be narrated aloud, start to finish — so you can put the phone down and keep looking at the piece in front of you.

SCAN AND WALK AWAY
Analysis keeps running after you leave the app. Cipher notifies you the moment a result is ready.

HONEST BY DESIGN
When a photo can't establish what something is, Cipher says so — and shows no result rather than a confident-sounding guess. Identifying a design is not the same as authenticating an object, and Cipher never pretends otherwise.

WHAT YOU CAN SCAN
- Furniture, lighting & design objects — chairs, lamps, tables, ceramics
- Antiques & collectibles — pottery, glass, silver, metalware, jewellery
- Patterns & textiles — prints, rugs, wallpaper
- Architecture & ornament — facades, tilework, columns

MUSEUM-QUALITY SOURCES
Results are enriched with open-access works from the Met Museum, the V&A, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian, Harvard Art Museums, the Rijksmuseum, the Getty, Europeana and Wikimedia.

HOW IT WORKS
Snap or select a photo. Cipher analyses it with advanced AI. Get the identification, the value, the designer and the full story in seconds.

Your first scan is free. Cipher Pro is then free for 7 days, billed yearly after that, and you can cancel any time.

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