# Zekai Tan - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-16T09:28:46.679Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 13
- Lots with prices: 9
- First auction date: 2015-04-06
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-28
- Median realised price: $9,500
- Price range: $950 to $81,250

## Market Takeaway
Zekai Tan has 13 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $9,500. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. 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 \($9,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($4,000 to $32,760\) 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: 11.1% (1 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 44.4% (4 sales)
- $10,000\+: 44.4% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 0
- Recent 12 months median: $11,000
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-28
- Days since latest sale: 199
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 4 lots
- Sotheby's: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 2 lots
- Linwoods Auction: 2 lots
- Graham's Auction: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-28 | TAN ZEKAI \(1889\-1948\) Calligraphy Couplet in Regular Script | Bonhams | HK$11,000
2. 2023-08-29 | TAN ZEKAI \(1889\-1948\) Seven\-character Calligraphic Couplet in Running Scri | Christie's | HK$32,760
3. 2021-03-07 | Tan Zekai \(Chinese, 1889\-1948\) | Graham's Auction | N/A
4. 2020-11-30 | TAN ZEKAI \(1889\-1948\), Calligraphy in Running Script, | Christie's | N/A
5. 2018-12-17 | Tan Zekai \(1889\-1948\) Couplet of Calligraphy in Standard Script | Bonhams | $4,000
6. 2018-08-18 | TAN ZEKAI \(1889\-1948\), CALLIGRAPHY COUPLET | Linwoods Auction | $950
7. 2018-05-29 | TAN ZEKAI \(1889\-1948\) \- Calligraphy | Christie's | HK$75,000
8. 2017-06-25 | TAN ZEKAI \(1889\-1948\), CALLIGRAPHY IN RUNNING SCRIPT | Linwoods Auction | N/A
9. 2016-03-17 | TAN ZEKAI 1889\-1947 \| CALLIGRAPHY COUPLET IN REGULAR SCRIPT | Sotheby's | $4,000
10. 2016-03-17 | TAN ZEKAI 1889\-1947 \| POEM IN RUNNING SCRIPT | Sotheby's | $9,500
11. 2015-12-01 | TAN ZEKAI \(1889\-1948\) Calligraphic Couplet | Christie's | HK$81,250
12. 2015-09-17 | TAN ZEKAI 1889\-1947 \| CALLIGRAPHY IN REGULAR SCRIPT | Sotheby's | $2,750
13. 2015-04-06 | TAN ZEKAI \(1889\-1947\) \| Calligraphy in Kaishu | Sotheby's | N/A

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