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Chen Jizhi
Yuan painter from Fusha known only from his ink-outline handscroll of the Treaty at the Bian Bridge, dated 1320
A desk holds an unrolled sheet bearing three bold black ink strokes, with a rack of many brushes above it, a stone ink slab and ink stick, a porcelain bowl, a red lacquer box, a dish of red seal paste and a paperweight; a small seated figure shows through a round window onto bamboo.
Also known as Hao Zhupo
Chen Jizhi, sobriquet Zhupo, from Fusha, is absent from the painting histories and known only through his signed work, which places him in the reign of Emperor Renzong of Yuan; he worked in ink outline. The Palace Museum's paper handscroll The Treaty at the Bian Bridge is signed as painted by Chen Jizhi of Fusha in the second month of a year read as the gengshen year of Yanyou, 1320. It shows Emperor Taizong of Tang meeting the Turkic khan Illig at the Bian Bridge, with polo and trick riding; once catalogued as Liao, it is now dated to the Yuan.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; active under Emperor Renzong of Yuan; painted the Bianqiao scroll in 1320