“Exotic Beauty” • Story
30" x 20" • Edition 88 S/N
Hand Embeleshents (Gold Leafing)
Crushed Lapis lazuli and Crushed Malachitie.

The beautiful Daji lived around 1100 B.C., during the Shang dynasty. Her father was a barbarian chieftain, who gave her as a tribute to King Zhou. King Zhou was used to the soft-spoken and refined ladies of his court, and when he saw the exotic Daji, he promptly lost his heart and his head. He spent all his time with her and neglected his affairs of state, and this eventually brought about the demise of the Shang dynasty.