Name: Cream Cupbearer Qum
Brand: RUGINZA
SKU: QA4698
Price: 716.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Cream Persian Qum Silk Rug, pictorial design, hand-knotted, 55×76cm

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Size

55×76cm

Color — Cream

Cream

Rug material

Silk

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A pictorial rug on a cream ground showing a cupbearer scene. A woman in an orange-red robe and blue headscarf, her long hair loose, raises a green flask above her head and pours wine into a pale blue footed cup held by a bearded man in a green robe and striped turban. Flowering branches with red blossoms frame them on both sides, and a bank of flowers, leaves and turquoise water runs across the foot of the picture. A pale blue floral border sits between narrow guard stripes, closed by a red outer band and silk fringe at both ends.

Hand-knotted in silk. The stream of wine runs as a single thin red line from the flask all the way down to the cup, passing between the two faces — the only straight vertical line in the picture. At 55×76cm this is an extra small rug, made to hang on a wall.

Origin: Iran
Type: Qum, hand-knotted
Material: 100% silk
Design: Pictorial cupbearer scene
Size: 55×76cm (1'10"×2'6") — Extra Small
Colour: Cream
SKU: QA4698
One-of-a-kind: Yes

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100% silk pile, hand-knotted in Qum, with silk fringe at both ends. Silk is strong in tension but delicate in every other respect — it abrades, it marks with water, and it loses lustre permanently if treated like wool.

This is a portrait, and faces are the least forgiving thing a rug can carry. The eyes, lips and hands here are drawn with only a few knots each, and any wear would change the expression long before it showed elsewhere. The cream background is also pale enough to show a mark. On a wall, away from direct light, it will stay exactly as it is.

The cupbearer — sāqi in Persian — is one of the central figures of Persian lyric poetry. In the verses of Hafez and the quatrains attributed to Khayyam, the one who pours the wine stands for pleasure, companionship and the passing moment, and painters have returned to the scene for centuries: a figure raising a flask, a cup held out to receive it, flowers all around. This rug follows that tradition closely, and the weaver built the whole picture around one detail. Find the stream of wine. It leaves the spout of the raised flask as a thin red line and falls straight down, between the two faces, into the cup. Everything else in the picture curves — hair, robes, branches, water — so that one straight vertical line is what the eye settles on, and it joins the two figures at the exact point where the scene happens.

Shipping & Returns

Shipping
We ship from Japan to the United States, the United Kingdom and 19 European countries. Shipping is free on orders of ¥150,000 or more (approx. $1,000 / £790 / €920); orders below that ship at a ¥15,000 flat rate (approx. $99 / £79 / €92). Each rug is carefully rolled and wrapped. Orders are dispatched within 3 to 5 business days, then take 7 to 15 business days in transit. Every order ships with tracking. Import duties and taxes may apply in your country; please contact us before ordering for details.

Returns
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