Empress Liu (Later Tang)

Taken from a sacked village at five, empress at about twenty-eight. When her father came to the palace gates to claim her she had him beaten and sent away.

Painted by Xiang Li in watercolour and crushed gemstone pigment on silk, from The Chinese Empresses — a twelve-year series of 217 portraits. Reproduced as a giclée print on archival 360 gsm poly-cotton canvas, hand-stretched over solid wood with a mirrored wrap, so the whole painting stays on the front face.

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