The Empresses of the Qing

It begins with two Mongol women whose marriages bought the cavalry that took China, and ends with a signature on an abdication and a woman dying of opium withdrawal in a prison cell in 1946.

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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