# Zhi Lu - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-05-01T02:36:38.691Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 52
- Lots with prices: 32
- First auction date: 2002-10-27
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-10
- Median realised price: $62,500
- Price range: $125 to $42,800,000

## Market Takeaway
Zhi Lu has 52 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $62,500. 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 \($62,500\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($3,000 to $300,000\) 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: 12.5% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 25% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 62.5% (20 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 1
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $0
- Median shift: N/A
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-10
- Days since latest sale: 202
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 19 lots
- Sotheby's: 10 lots
- Chiswick Auctions: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Auction Co., Ltd. Fujian China: 1 lots
- Auctionata Paddle8 AG: 1 lots
- Beijing International Auction Co., Ltd. From afar: 1 lots
- Canterbury Auction Galleries: 1 lots
- DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers: 1 lots
- Dallas Auction Gallery: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2024-11-27 | LU ZHI \(1496\-1576\). Boating. Handscroll, ink and colour on paper 24.5 x 141 | Christie's | N/A
2. 2024-03-20 | Lu zhi Flower | SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL AUCTION PTE LTD. | $1,200
3. 2023-10-07 | Lu Zhi, Narcissus \| 陸治 水仙圖 | Sotheby's | N/A
4. 2021-11-29 | LU ZHI \(1496\-1576\) The South Marsh Handscroll, ink and colour on paper 27.4 | Christie's | HK$5,625,000
5. 2021-09-01 | LU ZHI \(attributed, 1496－1576\). | Chiswick Auctions | N/A
6. 2020-12-02 | LU ZHI \(1496\-1576\) Sailing in Spring Fan leaf, mounted and framed, ink and | Christie's | HK$325,000
7. 2019-03-22 | LU ZHI 1496\-1576 \| EMPTY VALLEY AT SUNSET | Sotheby's | $180,000
8. 2019-03-19 | LU ZHI \(1496\-1576\) Landscape Album of eight leaves, ink and color on silk Each leaf measures 10 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. \(27.5 x 26.2 cm\) | Christie's | $27,500
9. 2018-11-02 | ALAN BEAN SIGNED LIMITED EDITION "HEAVENLY REFLECTIONS" PRINT, ALSO SIGNED BY CH | Heritage Auctions | $550
10. 2018-05-24 | LU ZHI   \(follower of, 1496 – 1576\) Bird on Flowering Branch ink and colour on silk, album leaf signed Baoshan Lu Zhi, dated Jiajing Xinyou \(1561\), with two seal of artist 29 x 36.5cm. 陸治（傳）   花鳥圖 設色紙本   冊頁 | Chiswick Auctions | £125
11. 2018-02-04 | Chinese watercolor painted scroll | Sofe Design Auctions | $800
12. 2016-09-15 | LU ZHI 1496\-1575 \| GAZING AT A WATERFALL | Sotheby's | $7,500
13. 2013-09-12 | LU ZHI （1496\-1576） | Wichita Auctioneers | $3,500
14. 2012-03-22 | LU ZHI 1496\-1575 | Sotheby's | $56,250
15. 2011-09-07 | Chinese watercolor hand scroll attr. to Lu Zhi | Dallas Auction Gallery | $3,675
16. 2009-05-26 | LU ZHI \(1496\-1576\) | Christie's | HK$375,000
17. 2008-05-26 | Secluded village | Christie's | N/A
18. 2007-11-07 | LU ZHI \(1496\-1576\) LANDSCAPE | Sotheby's | N/A
19. 2006-11-27 | LU ZHI \(1496\-1576\) | Christie's | N/A
20. 2006-11-27 | LU ZHI \(1946\-1576\) | Christie's | N/A
21. 2006-11-27 | LU ZHI \(1496\-1576\) | Christie's | N/A
22. 2005-05-30 | LU ZHI \(1496\-1576\) | Christie's | HK$840,000
23. 2025-10-10 | 徐士安 仿陸叔平｜Xu Shian, Flowers after Lu Zhi | Sotheby's | N/A | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-xu-shian-flowers-after-lu-zhi-9045-c-d768a1d7aa
24. 2023-12-24 | LU ZHI \(1496\-1576\), FAN PAINTING, FLOWER AND BIRDS | Fukuoka Yumekai Auction | ¥300,000

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