Zhao Ji [Chao Chi] 伝鷲佶徽宗
(1082-1135)
Reigned as the Huizong emperor
(1100-1125)
“Imperial Eagle” 御鷹圖
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
120.0 x 53.0 cm. (47 1/4 x 20 3/4 in.)
Inscription by Cai Cao (d. after 1147), son of Prime Minister Cai Jing (1046-1126); poem, much damaged and over-written, signed “Cai Cao, Grand Academician of the Xuanhe Palace.”
Published: Kase Toho: “Dreaming of a White Eagle,” Geijutsu Shincho, no. 292, 1974.