# Tao Shi artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/tao-shi/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:12:31.088Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Chinese
- Common media: Painting, Calligraphy, Light color on paper, Handscroll

## Portrait

![Tao Shi](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Shitao-autoportrait.jpg/1280px-Shitao-autoportrait.jpg)
Shitao ( 石濤 ) · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shitao-autoportrait.jpg

## About Tao Shi

Tao Shi is the Appraisily display name for the historical artist more widely catalogued as Shitao or Shi Tao, a Chinese painter, calligrapher, poet, and Buddhist monk associated with the transition from the late Ming to the early Qing period. Authority records also connect him with names including Zhu Ruoji, Yuanji, Daoji, and Tao Chi, so name matching is an important part of identifying works and records. The collected authorities most consistently give 1642–1707, although library files preserve competing chronologies. Shitao is especially associated with landscape painting and expressive calligraphy; a documented self-portrait detail also records a handscroll made with light color on paper. Collectors may encounter his name in catalogues for Chinese paintings, calligraphy, and works on paper, but the abundance of alternate names and the chronological disagreement make careful record-level attribution essential. This page therefore retains Tao Shi as its public-facing name while linking it to the better-established Shitao authority identity.

## Common works and media

Commonly encountered categories supported by the source pack are landscape paintings, calligraphy, and works on paper. The documented self-portrait detail comes from a handscroll described as light color on paper. Poetry is part of Shitao's recorded practice, but the pack does not establish a recurring auction category for manuscripts or books. Because his name appears in many transliterations and personal or monastic forms, catalogue searches should consider Shitao, Shi Tao, Tao Chi, Daoji, Yuanji, and Zhu Ruoji.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal purposes, the strongest signals in this source pack are identity, chronology, and work type. A catalogued Tao Shi work should first be checked against the Shitao authority identity and its alternate names, since the authority files disagree on lifespan and record many name forms. Classification as painting, landscape work, calligraphy, or a handscroll-format work on paper can then guide the choice of comparable auction records. The Appraisily input reports 207 associated records, but this research pack does not expose their individual descriptions, attributions, condition reports, sale dates, or realized prices. Those lot-level records must be reviewed before drawing conclusions about comparability, price direction, or value.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Identity conflicts and missing lot-level evidence are retained as limitations rather than resolved by assumption.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q469439
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500125620
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96607803/
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/37435130/
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/61144814313623573565/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitao
- Wikipedia: https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitao
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitao
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/tao-shi/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shitao-autoportrait.jpg