# Xi Dai artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/xi-dai/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:36:09.448Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Chinese
- Movements: Academic manner
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Xi Dai](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/%E6%88%B4%E7%86%99.jpg)
清叶衍兰辑摹，黄小泉绘。 · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E6%88%B4%E7%86%99.jpg

## About Xi Dai

Xi Dai is the Appraisily page label for the Chinese painter more commonly normalized as Dai Xi in Wikidata and English-language reference material. Authority data gives his life years as 1801–1860. A secondary biography places him in the nineteenth century, associates him with an academic manner, and records the literary names Chunshi and Yu'an. These alternate forms matter because historical works and modern catalogues may reverse the name order, use different Romanizations, or identify the artist through a sobriquet or pen name. Collectors may consequently encounter apparently different attributions that require careful identity matching. The present source pack establishes the artist's basic identity and profession but does not provide enough museum or catalogue detail to characterize particular techniques, subjects, schools, or named series confidently. This page should therefore function as an identity-matched market index while keeping narrower art-historical classifications provisional.

## Common works and media

The available identity sources describe Xi Dai, more commonly ordered as Dai Xi, as a Chinese painter. Paintings are therefore the only supported broad work category in this source pack. It does not provide sufficient evidence to specify recurring subjects, materials, supports, named series, prints, editions, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, or posters. Such labels should be added only after museum, catalogue, or auction-lot evidence is reviewed.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming whether an attribution to Xi Dai refers to the painter identified elsewhere as Dai Xi or 戴熙 and whether the proposed date fits his documented 1801–1860 lifespan. The collected sources support painting as the broad work type but do not establish artist-specific rules for technique, support, format, provenance, or condition. Those characteristics must be assessed from the individual object and its documentation. Where public auction records are available, relevant comparisons should match the work type and attribution level and should preserve the sale date, realized price, and lot context. The source pack did not expose enough auction-level detail to support a price trend, typical range, or claim about market scarcity.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Here, the identity evidence is stronger than the collected market detail, so auction-level conclusions should remain provisional until the underlying records are reviewed.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5209048
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500115667
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG9303
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dai_Xi
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dai_Xi
- Wikipedia: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%B4%E7%86%99
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/78529529/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012000234
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/1116990601
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/xi-dai/