# Lian Ju artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/lian-ju/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:58:19.565Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Chinese
- Common media: Painting

## About Lian Ju

Lian Ju is the name order used on this Appraisily page for the Chinese painter represented in international authority files as Ju Lian (1828–1904). Wikidata also records Chu Lien, while VIAF connects Ju Lian and the Chinese name 居廉 across library and museum authority records. He came from Panyu, now part of Guangzhou, and worked during the Qing dynasty. Public biographical summaries associate him especially with bird-and-flower painting, while also noting figures and plant-and-insect subjects. These themes place his work in the context of late Qing Chinese painting rather than a documented modern Western movement. Collectors may encounter his work under reversed name order, different Romanizations, or Chinese characters, making careful identity matching especially important. Appraisily’s collected auction index currently associates 192 records with the public name Lian Ju, although every object still requires independent assessment of attribution and catalogue details.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Ju Lian commonly appear as paintings of birds and flowers, figures, and detailed plant-and-insect subjects. The collected sources do not establish which supports, techniques, or formats predominate. A listing therefore should not be normalized to ink, watercolor, hanging scroll, album leaf, or another specific medium or format without evidence from the object and its catalogue record.

## Market and appraisal context

Market evidence in the collected source pack is broad rather than lot-specific: Appraisily associates 192 records with this artist page, but the fetched page did not expose individual results. For appraisal, the catalogue name—Lian Ju, Ju Lian, Chu Lien, or 居廉—should first be reconciled with the authority-file identity. Subject matter can then help determine whether a work fits the documented repertoire of bird-and-flower, figure, or plant-and-insect painting. Any value conclusion should rely on the specific object’s stated medium, format, dimensions, condition, inscriptions or seals, provenance, attribution language, sale date, realized price, and genuinely comparable public lots. The available evidence does not support a price trend or forecast.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When available, sale dates, realized prices, catalogue descriptions, and comparable lots are evaluated at the individual-object level rather than treated as proof of authorship or future value.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11042161
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500341011
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/31014838/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ju_Lian
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/lian-ju/