# Yuanpei Cai - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T10:14:26.451Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 25
- Lots with prices: 13
- First auction date: 2009-04-05
- Latest auction date: 2024-11-30
- Median realised price: $2,250
- Price range: $500 to $764,000

## Market Takeaway
Yuanpei Cai has 25 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,250. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($2,250\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($950 to $55,000\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 30.8% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 30.8% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 38.5% (5 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 4
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $500
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2024-11-30
- Days since latest sale: 517
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- China Arts Auction: 11 lots
- Sotheby's: 3 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Golden State Auction Gallery: 2 lots
- Marchance Auctioneers: 2 lots
- Dasing Auction: 1 lots
- H&H Brother Auction House: 1 lots
- Muses Auction Gallery: 1 lots
- Potomack Company: 1 lots
- Tomikai Auction: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-11-30 | CAI YUANPEI, ATTRIBUTED TO, CALLIGRAPHY LETTER TWO FRAMES | China Arts Auction | $500
2. 2024-11-27 | CAI YUANPEI, PAIR OF CHINESE CALLIGRAHY | China Arts Auction | N/A
3. 2024-11-27 | CAI YUANPEI, PAIR OF CHINESE CALLIGRAHY | China Arts Auction | $2,250
4. 2024-11-27 | CAI YUANPEI, CHINESE CALLIPRAHY | China Arts Auction | N/A
5. 2023-11-16 | CAI YUANPEI, ATTRIBUTED TO, TWO FRAMES OF CALLIGRAPHIC LETTERS | China Arts Auction | N/A
6. 2023-06-18 | CAI YUANPEI \(1868\-1940\)\-CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY | Tomikai Auction | ¥140,000
7. 2023-03-10 | CAI YUANPEI, CHINESE CALLIPRAHY | China Arts Auction | $750
8. 2023-02-27 | CAI YUANPEI, CHINESE CALLIPRAHY | China Arts Auction | $950
9. 2022-10-06 | CAI YUANPEI\(1868\-1940\) \- Calligraphy | H&H Brother Auction House | SGD 500
10. 2022-09-19 | CAI YUANPEI, CHINESE CALLIPRAHY | China Arts Auction | N/A
11. 2022-03-17 | CAI YUANPEI, CHINESE CALLIPRAHY | China Arts Auction | N/A
12. 2022-02-06 | CAI YUANPEI, CHINESE CALLIPRAHY | China Arts Auction | N/A
13. 2021-02-03 | CAI YUANPEI, CHINESE CALLIPRAHY | China Arts Auction | N/A
14. 2018-10-01 | CAI YUANPEI \(1868\-1940\) Calligraphy in Running Script Ink on gold\-flecked | Bonhams | N/A
15. 2018-08-25 | Cai Yuanpei, Calligraphy民國\-蔡元培 書法中堂 | Dasing Auction | N/A
16. 2018-03-19 | A Chinese Calligraphy Couplet by Cai Yuanpei | Muses Auction Gallery | $3,500
17. 2017-05-30 | A CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY SCROLL by Cai Yuanpei | Marchance Auctioneers | N/A
18. 2017-05-30 | CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY by Cai Yuanpei | Marchance Auctioneers | N/A
19. 2017-03-16 | CAI YUANPEI 1868\-1940 \| CALLIGRAPHY COUPLET IN RUNNING SCRIPT | Sotheby's | $37,500
20. 2016-04-05 | CAI YUANPEI \| Calligraphy in Xingshu | Sotheby's | HK$80,000
21. 2014-12-15 | Cai Yuanpei \(1868\-1940\) Letter | Golden State Auction Gallery | $1,000
22. 2014-11-23 | Cai Yuanpei \(1868\-1940\) Couplet of Calligraphy | Bonhams | N/A
23. 2014-07-26 | CAI YUANPEI \(CHINESE, 1868\-1940\) SEVEN CHARACTER STANDARD SCRIPT CALLIGRAPHY Ink on paper: 50 x 11 1/4 in. | Potomack Company | $55,000
24. 2013-12-16 | Cai YuanPei \(1868\-1940\) Calligraphy | Golden State Auction Gallery | $1,220

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