Shen Quan Auction Prices and Value Guide

Shen Quan auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 274 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Shen Quan auction prices: quick answer

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

Artist
Shen Quan
Source records
274
Market update
2026-02-16

Shen Quan market snapshot

Shen Quan shows solid auction liquidity with 119 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $81,250. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 5 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-06-26.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (15.5% · 11 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (23.9% · 17 sales)
  • $10,000+ (60.6% · 43 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$600
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
5
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-06-26

Artist context

About Shen Quan

Born

1682

Died

1760

Nationality

Chinese

Also known as

Nanpin, Hengzhai, Chen Ts'iuan, Shên Ch'üan

Shen Quan (1682–1760) was a Chinese painter associated with the Qing dynasty. Sources also identify Nanpin as his courtesy name and Hengzhai as a sobriquet; the transliterations Chen Ts'iuan and Shên Ch'üan may also appear in catalog records. The collected material places him in Nagasaki for about two years and connects his teaching there with realistic flower-and-bird subjects. His work influenced Japanese Edo-period art, making him relevant to histories of artistic exchange between China and Japan as well as to Qing painting. Collectors are therefore most likely to encounter his name in connection with paintings of flowers and birds, sometimes cataloged under alternate romanizations or art names. The present source pack is strongest on basic identity and historical context, but it lacks a museum object record or scholarly catalogue excerpt that would support a fuller account of his chronology, workshop practice, individual works, or stylistic development.

PaintingFlowers and birds

Common works and media

Available sources identify Shen Quan as a painter and specifically connect his Nagasaki teaching with realistic flower-and-bird subjects. For page and appraisal matching, the safest common-work labels are Chinese painting and flower-and-bird painting. The pack does not establish a reliable basis for listing prints, sculpture, ceramics, editions, posters, or other categories. The collected Wikimedia candidates depict artworks or calligraphy rather than the artist himself.

Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily signal indicates 274 auction records associated with this artist page, but the pack does not expose lot-level descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, attribution language, or auction-house commentary. An appraisal should therefore begin by resolving the artist's alternate names and confirming that a candidate work belongs to the historical Shen Quan record rather than a namesake or later attribution. Comparisons should be limited to public auction lots with closely matching work type and subject, especially flower-and-bird painting, while preserving each auction house's exact attribution wording. This source pack does not support a price forecast, trend claim, or ranking of condition, provenance, date, format, or other possible value drivers.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Chinese painting
  • Flower-and-bird painting

Value drivers

  1. Identity and attribution under the names Shen Quan, Nanpin, Hengzhai, Chen Ts'iuan, and Shên Ch'üan
  2. Relevance of public auction comparisons to the same work type and flower-and-bird subject

Appraisal caveats

  • The collected Appraisily input signals 274 associated auction records, but this source pack does not provide their lot descriptions, sale dates, realized prices, or attribution language.
  • No major auction-house biography or lot record is included, so the pack cannot support price forecasts, market-trend claims, or conclusions about the relative effect of condition, provenance, date, or format.
  • Multiple Getty ULAN and VIAF identifiers were discovered for the name Shen Quan; they should not be consolidated without further authority-file review.

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 Shen Quan

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Shen Quan 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 Shen Quan artwork?

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