Qiu Ying Auction Prices and Value Guide

Qiu Ying auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 810 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Qiu Ying auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Qiu Ying
Source records
810
Market update
2026-02-16

Qiu Ying market snapshot

Qiu Ying shows deep auction liquidity with 220 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,500. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 17 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2026-01-18.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (20.2% · 25 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (46.8% · 58 sales)
  • $10,000+ (33.1% · 41 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$1,500
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
17
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2026-01-18

Artist context

About Qiu Ying

Qiu Ying portrait
Li Yueyun, 1898. · Public domain · Source

Born

1494

Died

1552

Nationality

Chinese

Also known as

Shifu, Shizhou

Qiu Ying (1494–1552) was a Chinese painter active during the Ming dynasty. Public reference sources identify painting as his principal occupation and associate him particularly with the precise gongbi brush tradition. He is also commonly placed near the Wu school and described as one of the Four Masters of the Ming dynasty, although the collected institutional records provide less narrative detail for those classifications than the encyclopedia sources. His courtesy name is recorded as Shifu and his art name as Shizhou. Collectors encounter Qiu Ying through paintings carrying his name or an attribution to him, as well as through later cataloguing traditions surrounding an influential early Chinese master. Those distinctions matter: a database association with the artist is not equivalent to authenticated authorship. Careful identification therefore begins with the catalogue wording, documented history, physical characteristics, and comparison with securely referenced works rather than with the artist name alone.

Wu schoolMing dynasty paintingPaintingGongbi brush painting

Common works and media

The collected sources support paintings as the principal work type associated with Qiu Ying and identify gongbi as a characteristic brush technique. They do not provide enough lot-level evidence to rank particular subjects, formats, supports, or materials by auction frequency. Objects encountered under his name should therefore be described from their own observable characteristics and catalogue documentation rather than assigned an unsupported standard subject category.

Market and appraisal context

Market interpretation should begin with the exact attribution attached to a painting, since a direct attribution, a qualified attribution, and a later work associated with the artist's tradition are not interchangeable. The stated medium and technique can be compared with Qiu Ying's documented connection to gongbi painting, but stylistic compatibility alone does not establish authorship. Date, format, dimensions, inscriptions, seals, provenance, condition, and the quality of available documentation may all require specialist examination before comparable sales are selected. Appraisily's artist page supplies an auction-record starting point; meaningful valuation requires comparison with genuinely similar public lots, their catalogue descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, and any material qualifications recorded by the auction house.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Chinese paintings catalogued under Qiu Ying

Value drivers

  1. Consistency of the stated medium and brush technique with Qiu Ying's documented specialization in gongbi painting
  2. The precise attribution language used in the auction catalogue
  3. Comparable public auction records, including their sale dates and realized prices, when suitable lot-level records are available

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected source pack contains an auction-directory signal but no individual lot descriptions, condition reports, provenance histories, dimensions, or realized-price details.
  • A name-level auction result should not by itself be treated as proof that a work is autograph or securely attributed.
  • The source pack does not establish which subjects, formats, or materials occur most frequently in the available auction records.

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 Qiu Ying

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Qiu Ying 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.

Can Appraisily value my Qiu Ying artwork?

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