# Zeng Guofan - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T17:01:19.006Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 43
- Lots with prices: 36
- First auction date: 2002-04-28
- Latest auction date: 2025-11-11
- Median realised price: $100,000
- Price range: $200 to $1,524,000

## Market Takeaway
Zeng Guofan has 43 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $100,000. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 4 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 \($100,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($18,000 to $437,500\) 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% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 8.3% (3 sales)
- $10,000\+: 80.6% (29 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 4
- Previous 12 months sales: 5
- Recent 12 months median: $165,100
- Previous 12 months median: $100,000
- Median shift: 65.1%
- Latest sale date: 2025-11-11
- Days since latest sale: 170
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 16 lots
- Sotheby's: 12 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- H&H Brother Auction House: 2 lots
- Potomack Company: 2 lots
- Poway Auctioneers Inc.: 2 lots
- Auction Co., Ltd. Fujian China: 1 lots
- China Arts Auction: 1 lots
- Kunsthaus Lempertz KG: 1 lots
- Mega International Auction: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-11-11 | ZENG GUOFAN \(1811\-1872\). Seven\-character Calligraphic Couplet in Running Sc | Christie's | HK$609,600
2. 2025-10-28 | ZENG GUOFAN \(1811\-1872\). Calligraphy. Scroll, mounted and framed, ink on go | Christie's | HK$165,100
3. 2025-10-10 | Calligraphy,by Zeng Guofan | Tokyo Kirin Auction | ¥100,000
4. 2025-06-26 | ZENG GUOFAN \(1811\-1872\), ATTRIBUTED TO, RUNNING SCRIPT COUPLET | China Arts Auction | N/A
5. 2025-04-30 | ZENG GUOFAN \(1811\-1872\). Running Script Calligraphy. Scroll, mounted and fr | Christie's | HK$94,500
6. 2024-11-29 | ZENG GUOFAN \(1811\-1872\) Calligraphy in Regular Script | Bonhams | HK$100,000
7. 2024-11-27 | ZENG GUOFAN \(1811\-1872\). Running Script Calligraphy. Scroll, mounted and fr | Christie's | HK$882,000
8. 2024-11-27 | ZENG GUOFAN \(1811\-1872\). Seven\-Character Calligraphic Couplet in Running Sc | Christie's | HK$252,000
9. 2024-05-04 | BAMBOO CARVING POETRY PEN HOLDER INSCRIBED AND DONATED BY ZENG GUOFAN | Mega International Auction | N/A
10. 2023-10-07 | Zeng Guofan, Calligraphy in Regular Script \| 曾國藩 行楷七言聯 | Sotheby's | HK$190,500
11. 2023-06-01 | ZENG GUOFAN \(1811\-1872\) Poems in Standard Script Hanging scroll, ink on pap | Christie's | HK$1,260,000
12. 2022-12-07 | ZENG GUOFAN \(1811\-1872\) Seven\-Character Poem in Running Script A set of fou | Christie's | HK$126,000
13. 2022-10-06 | ZENG GUOFAN\(1811\-1872\) \- Calligraphy | H&H Brother Auction House | SGD 600
14. 2022-03-18 | Chinese Calligraphy Couplet by Zeng Guofan | Oakridge Auction Gallery | $20,000
15. 2021-12-09 | Zeng Guofan\(1811\-1872\) Calligraphy Couplet in Running Script | Bonhams | HK$45,000
16. 2019-05-27 | ZENG GUOFAN \(1811\-1872\) Calligraphic Couplet in Running Script A pair of hanging scrolls, ink on gold\-flecked paper Each scroll measures 164.2 x 36.2 cm. \(64 5/8 x 14 1/4 in.\) \(2\) | Christie's | HK$500,000
17. 2018-05-28 | ZENG GUOFAN \(1811\-1872\) Running\-Cursive Script Calligraphy A set of six ha | Christie's | HK$1,062,500
18. 2017-03-16 | ZENG GUOFAN 1811\-1872 \| CALLIGRAPHY COUPLET IN REGULAR SCRIPT | Sotheby's | $162,500
19. 2016-06-23 | ZENG GUOFAN \(1811\-1872\) COUPLET DE CALLIGRAPHIE DE STYLE RÉGULIER \| | Sotheby's | €50,000
20. 2016-06-23 | ZENG GUOFAN \(1811\-1872\) COUPLET DE CALLIGRAPHIE DE STYLE RÉGULIER \| | Sotheby's | €61,000
21. 2016-03-17 | ZENG GUOFAN 1811\-1872 \| CALLIGRAPHY COUPLET IN REGULAR SCRIPT | Sotheby's | $45,000
22. 2015-11-30 | ZENG GUOFAN \(1811\-1872\) Standard Script Calligraphy | Christie's | HK$1,240,000
23. 2015-04-06 | ZENG GUOFAN \(1811\-1872\) \| Calligraphy Couplet in Xingshu | Sotheby's | HK$437,500
24. 2023-10-07 | Zeng Guofan, Ruan Yuan, He Shaoji, Wu Yun and others, Letters \| 曾國藩、阮元、何紹基、吳雲等晚清諸家 家書及信札 | Sotheby's | HK$1,524,000

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