Navy Musician Qum
Navy Musician Qum
Navy Musician Qum
Navy Musician Qum
Navy Musician Qum
Navy Musician Qum
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Navy Musician Qum
Navy Musician Qum
Navy Musician Qum
Navy Musician Qum
Navy Musician Qum
Navy Musician Qum
Navy Musician Qum

Navy Musician Qum

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A near-black navy field shaped as an arched niche, with small pink lattice spandrels above the arch. Filling the niche is one great vase: its outline and handles are drawn in peach acanthus scrolls, a red lattice oval marks its mouth, and in its belly a woman with flowers in her hair plays a lute against a ground of swirling blue. A large red peony blooms at the vase's foot, and the vase stands on a pedestal of diamond-set flowers over a scrolling plinth. An ivory border of small blossoms runs between narrow guard stripes, closed by a raspberry-red outer band and silk fringe at both ends.

Hand-knotted in silk. Inside the base of the great vase, under the peony, the weaver has drawn a second, much smaller vase — a vase within a vase. At 55×65cm this is an extra small rug, made to hang on a wall or rest on a low table.

  • Origin: Iran
  • Type: Qum, hand-knotted
  • Material: 100% silk
  • Design: Pictorial musician within a vase, under an arch
  • Size: 55×65cm (1'10"×2'2") — Extra Small
  • Colour: Navy
  • SKU: QA4638
  • One-of-a-kind: Yes

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 picture rug and is best treated as one. The musician's face, hands and lute are drawn with very few knots, and wear on a floor would blur them quickly. The near-black field shows every speck of lint and every pale thread, while the ivory areas inside the vase and the border show marks. On a wall, away from direct light, it will keep both its detail and its colour.

The vase is one of the oldest motifs in Persian carpet design — whole 'vase carpets' are built from rows of small vases sprouting flowers. This rug takes a single vase and blows it up until it fills the field, then uses it as a picture frame. Trace its outline: the peach acanthus scrolls on either side are its handles and shoulders, the red lattice oval at the top is its mouth, and the portrait of the lute player sits exactly where the vase's painted belly would be. Below, the red peony is the flower growing from it, and the pedestal and plinth are its stand. The weaver added a joke for anyone who looks closely: at the base of the great vase, just under the peony, is a second vase in miniature, drawn the ordinary carpet size. It is the clearest clue that the big one is meant to be read as a vase and not just as a decorative frame.

Shipping & Returns

Shipping We offer free shipping on all orders within Japan. Each rug is carefully rolled, wrapped, and shipped fully insured. Orders are dispatched within 1 to 2 business days, with tracking sent as soon as your order ships. Delivery within Japan typically takes 2 to 5 business days.

Returns We accept returns within 7 days of delivery. Items must be unused and in their original condition. To start a return, contact our customer support. For a defective or incorrectly shipped item, we cover the return cost and arrange a replacement or refund. For returns due to personal preference such as size, colour, or a change of mind, return shipping is paid by the customer.

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