Lanfang Mei Auction Prices and Value Guide

Lanfang Mei auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 154 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Lanfang Mei auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Lanfang Mei
Source records
154
Market update
2026-02-06

Lanfang Mei market snapshot

Lanfang Mei shows thin auction liquidity with 2 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $4,200. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 0 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2021-11-05.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (0.0% · 0 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (100.0% · 1 sales)
  • $10,000+ (0.0% · 0 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$0
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
0
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2021-11-05

Artist context

About Lanfang Mei

Lanfang Mei portrait
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain · Source

Born

1894

Died

1961

Nationality

Chinese

Also known as

Mei Lanfang, Mei Lan, Lan Fang, Mei, Lan-Fang, Mei

Mei Lanfang (1894–1961), presented on this page under the catalog-style name Lanfang Mei, was a Chinese Peking opera performer and an important figure in modern Chinese theater. Born Mei Lan, he became known by the stage name Mei Lanfang. His reputation centered on dan roles—the female-role tradition of Peking opera—and especially qingyi characters representing refined young or middle-aged women. He is commonly grouped with Shang Xiaoyun, Cheng Yanqiu, and Xun Huisheng as one of the Four Great Dan. His documented creative context belongs principally to performance history, not to a visual-art movement or a clearly established body of collectible visual works. Collectors may nevertheless encounter his name in auction records whose object type and relationship to the performer must be checked individually. Because Lanfang Mei, Mei Lanfang, Mei Lan, and other cataloguing variants can indicate the same person, entity matching should rely on lifespan, theatrical context, and authority identifiers rather than name order alone.

Peking opera performanceDan female-lead rolesQingyi roles depicting refined young or middle-aged women

Common works and media

The collected sources document Mei Lanfang's Peking opera performances, especially dan and qingyi roles, but do not establish a recurring body of paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, photographs, or editions made by him. Any auction item catalogued under this name should therefore be classified from its own description and supporting evidence rather than assigned a presumed medium.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisal begins with identity: the catalog form Lanfang Mei should be reconciled with Mei Lanfang, Mei Lan, and authority-file variants, then checked against the 1894–1961 Peking opera performer. The supplied source pack contains an Appraisily auction-price page but no lot descriptions, major-auction-house extracts, realized-price data, dimensions, condition reports, provenance, or edition information. It therefore does not support a claim that any medium or auction category is typical, nor does it support a price trend. For an individual item, analysis should consider work type, authorship or attribution language, date, condition, provenance, edition status where relevant, and genuinely comparable public sales. Association with Mei Lanfang must not be treated as authorship without documentation.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Value drivers

  1. Documented attribution linking an item to Mei Lanfang rather than a namesake or cataloguing variant
  2. Lot-specific work type, date, condition, provenance, edition status where relevant, and comparable public auction records

Appraisal caveats

  • The source pack does not identify recurring auction categories, media, editions, or object types for this name.
  • No major-auction-house lot descriptions, realized prices, provenance records, or condition reports were collected, so artist-specific price or demand conclusions are unsupported.
  • Mei Lanfang is documented primarily as a Peking opera performer rather than as a visual artist; association with him should not be treated as authorship without supporting documentation.
  • Cataloguing variants and reversed name order create an elevated risk of entity mismatch.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate 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 Lanfang Mei

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Lanfang Mei worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

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