# Xie Zheng artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/xie-zheng/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:17:04.160Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1693-11-22
- Death date: 1766-01-22
- Nationality: Chinese
- Movements: Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou
- Common media: Painting, Calligraphy

## Portrait

![Xie Zheng](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Zheng_Xie.png)
葉衍蘭 · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zheng_Xie.png

## About Xie Zheng

Xie Zheng is the input name form for the Qing-dynasty Chinese painter, calligrapher, poet, and official more commonly normalized by authority records as Zheng Xie. He is also widely known as Zheng Banqiao, after the art name Banqiao, while Kerou was his courtesy name. Zheng progressed through the imperial examination system and served as a magistrate in Shandong before leaving official life and concentrating on artistic work. He is associated with the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, a group remembered for distinctive approaches outside more conventional painting practice. Collected sources particularly connect his work with bamboo, orchids, and rocks, as well as calligraphy. Collectors may therefore encounter his name on paintings, calligraphic works, inscriptions, and catalog records under several romanizations and Chinese-character forms. Careful name reconciliation matters because Xie Zheng and Zheng Xie reverse the order of the same personal and family names, while Banqiao appears frequently as an alternate identity.

## Common works and media

Collectors may encounter paintings and calligraphic works attributed to Zheng Xie or Zheng Banqiao, including compositions associated with bamboo, orchids, and rocks. Catalog entries may combine a painted subject with inscriptions or calligraphy and may identify the artist through Chinese characters, seals, the name Banqiao, or variant romanizations. Each object's authorship, date, materials, mounting, condition, and provenance must be assessed individually.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal begins by confirming that a work cataloged as Xie Zheng, Zheng Xie, or Zheng Banqiao refers to the same historical artist. Chinese characters, seals, inscriptions, documented ownership, and catalog history can be especially important where multiple romanizations appear. Relevant comparisons should distinguish paintings from calligraphic works and account for subject matter, date, dimensions, mounting, condition, and the strength of attribution. Bamboo, orchid, and rock subjects have documented associations with Zheng Xie, but subject alone does not authenticate a work. Public auction records can provide sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when sufficiently similar examples are available. The collected source pack does not contain lot-level evidence, so it cannot support a price prediction or market-trend claim.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and auction-house context. When records are available, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots are evaluated alongside attribution, medium, subject, condition, and provenance.

## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/034413863
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q712007
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Xie
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Xie
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/xie-zheng/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zheng_Xie.png