Andreas Cellarius Auction Prices and Value Guide

Andreas Cellarius auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 249 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

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Andreas Cellarius auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Andreas Cellarius
Source records
249
Market update
2026-02-06

Andreas Cellarius market snapshot

Andreas Cellarius shows developing auction liquidity with 31 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $800. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-09.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (50.0% · 13 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (50.0% · 13 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$100
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
1
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-09

Artist context

About Andreas Cellarius

Nationality

Dutch, German

The collected encyclopedia source identifies Andreas Cellarius as a Dutch–German cartographer and cosmographer best known for Harmonia Macrocosmica, a star atlas published in 1660. His name is therefore encountered primarily in connection with historical cartography, astronomy, cosmology, and visual explanations of celestial systems rather than with a conventional fine-art movement. Collectors may see his name attached to atlas material or imagery derived from this influential cosmographical project. The available identity evidence nevertheless requires caution: the Wikidata record collected by the research harness describes a person who lived from 1656 to 1702, a chronology incompatible with authorship of a work published in 1660. That record may concern another person with the same name. Until a stronger museum, library, or scholarly authority record resolves the discrepancy, exact life dates and biographical details should not be assigned to this artist page.

CartographyCelestial atlas designAstronomy and cosmologyCelestial systems

Common works and media

The available evidence most securely associates Andreas Cellarius with cartographic and cosmographical material, particularly Harmonia Macrocosmica and its presentation of astronomy and celestial systems. Items bearing his name may be catalogued broadly as maps, atlas material, or celestial imagery. The source pack does not establish whether a particular object is an original atlas component, a later impression, a reproduction, or a derivative work, so those distinctions should be verified object by object.

Market and appraisal context

Material associated with Cellarius may appear in map, atlas, celestial-chart, or works-on-paper contexts, but the collected source pack does not contain accessible auction-lot descriptions or realized-price evidence. A responsible appraisal should first establish the object's identity and its documented relationship to Harmonia Macrocosmica. Edition, date, format, completeness, condition, provenance, later reproduction, and attribution may require specialist examination, but this source pack does not establish artist-specific conclusions about those factors. The conflicting authority record also makes precise entity matching especially important. No price trend, scarcity claim, or value prediction can be supported from the available excerpts alone.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Maps and atlases
  • Celestial and cosmographical works

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected sources do not provide accessible, lot-level auction evidence supporting artist-specific price trends or detailed valuation factors.
  • Identity must be resolved before records are confidently associated with this historical cartographer, because the collected Wikidata lifespan conflicts with the 1660 publication date.
  • No conclusions about edition, rarity, condition, provenance, completeness, or attribution can be drawn from the available source excerpts.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: low confidence, thin source quality.

Source-grounded artist Markdown

Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Andreas Cellarius

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