# Watanabe Seitei - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-04T21:59:04.608Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 79
- Lots with prices: 52
- First auction date: 2001-12-08
- Latest auction date: 2025-12-16
- Median realised price: $280
- Price range: $10 to $21,250

## Market Takeaway
Watanabe Seitei shows solid auction liquidity with 79 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $280. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 16 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-16.

## How To Read This Data
- Use the median \($280\) as a typical result; many comparable sales cluster between $80 and $950.
- Auction totals can include buyer premiums or fees depending on reporting, so compare like\-for\-like when possible.
- Condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence can move value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 75% (39 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 23.1% (12 sales)
- $10,000\+: 1.9% (1 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 16
- Previous 12 months sales: 8
- Recent 12 months median: $70
- Previous 12 months median: $80
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-12-16
- Days since latest sale: 64
- Market velocity: moderate

## Top Auction Houses
- Armstrong Fine Art: 11 lots
- Christie's: 10 lots
- Bonhams: 9 lots
- Hughes Auctions: 8 lots
- Roseberys: 6 lots
- Floating World Auctions: 5 lots
- Kunsthaus Lempertz KG: 4 lots
- Gonnelli Casa d'Aste: 3 lots
- Lyon & Turnbull: 3 lots
- Eldred's: 2 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-16 | Watanabe Seitei \(Shotei\) \(Japanese, 1852\-1918\) | Freeman’s | $750
2. 2025-10-24 | WATANABE SEITEI \(Japan, 1852\-1918\), Two carp., Print on silk, 11.5" x 11.5" sight. Framed 15.5" x 15.5". | Eldred's | $275 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-watanabe-seitei-japan-1852-1918-two-carp-print-on-silk-11-5-x-11-5-sight-framed-15-5-x-15-5-3537-c-62f4c04be7
3. 2022-07-23 | ANTIQUE 1894 WATANABE SEITEI LITHOGRAPH G. BARRIE | Antique Arena Inc | $10 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-antique-1894-watanabe-seitei-lithograph-g-barrie-104-c-45841cf9a5
4. 2022-05-12 | WATANABE SEITEI \(1851\-1918\) AND SUZUKI KASON \(1860\-1919\) Meiji era \(1868\-1912\), late 19th/early 20th century \(3\) | Bonhams | £750
5. 2019-10-27 | Watanabe Seitei "Mallard Ducks" Woodblock | Bradford's | $25
6. 2010-11-10 | Watanabe Seitei \(1851\-1918\) | Christie's | N/A
7. 2025-12-16 | Watanabe Seitei \(Shotei\) \(Japanese, 1852\-1918\) | Freeman’s | $800
8. 2025-12-06 | Seitei WATANABE/Shotei: "Leaves and Vines". | Armstrong Fine Art | $70
9. 2025-12-06 | Seitei WATANABE/Shotei: "Parrot". | Armstrong Fine Art | N/A
10. 2025-12-06 | Seitei WATANABE/Shotei: "Birds Nesting and Bird Flying". | Armstrong Fine Art | $60
11. 2025-12-06 | Seitei WATANABE/Shotei: "Birds on Flowering Branch". | Armstrong Fine Art | $60
12. 2025-12-06 | Seitei WATANABE/Shotei: "Vines and Flying Bird". | Armstrong Fine Art | $60
13. 2025-12-06 | Seitei WATANABE/Shotei: "Dragonfly and Fruit Basket". | Armstrong Fine Art | N/A
14. 2025-12-06 | Seitei WATANABE/Shotei: "Rooster and Grasses". | Armstrong Fine Art | $125
15. 2025-12-06 | Seitei WATANABE/Shotei: "Blue and Brown Bird". | Armstrong Fine Art | $50
16. 2025-12-06 | Seitei WATANABE/Shotei: "Butterfly and Plants". | Armstrong Fine Art | N/A
17. 2025-12-06 | Seitei WATANABE/Shotei: "Bird and Yellow Flowers". | Armstrong Fine Art | $50
18. 2025-12-06 | Seitei WATANABE/Shotei: "Black Birds". | Armstrong Fine Art | $150
19. 2025-05-21 | Watanabe Seitei "Reading Geisha" Woodblock 1891 | Revere Auctions | $25
20. 2025-05-13 | Watanabe Seitei \(1852 \- 1918\) | Roseberys | £550 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-watanabe-seitei-1852-1918-419-c-6c64017b71
21. 2025-01-28 | Watanabe Seitei "Departure of the Crane" Print | Revere Auctions | N/A
22. 2024-11-07 | WATANABE SEITEI \(1851\-1918\) Birds and Flowers of Spring and Autumn Meiji era \(1868\-1912\), late 19th/early 20th century \(3\) | Bonhams | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-watanabe-seitei-1851-1918-birds-and-flowers-of-spring-and-autumn-meiji-era-1868-1912-late-19th-early-20th-century-3-295-c-26a42b38e0
23. 2024-09-21 | Watanabe Seitei \- Carp | Clars Auctions | N/A
24. 2024-09-18 | Ensemble 3 albums. | Alde | €280

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