Oval shape from 'Khayyam' series Painting

This painting is based on a Persian poem. The Symbolist Poet of this series is Khayyam. The verse of the poem on the painting is about love: "This clay pot like a lover once in the heat A lock of hair his senses did defeat The handle that has made the bottleneck its own seat Was once the embrace of a lover that entreat." The poet compares the essence of the jar of wine (the clay) to human beings primordial essence (which is made of clay). The verse describes that this jar of wine you see now, once used to be a lover just like me (turned into clay again). In the artwork is represented an old jar of wine, but rotating the picture, the observer discovers a woman's upper part body and instead of her head there is a drop (a Persian motif) in turquoise that represents the pureness. Here, the whole jar/figure is inside an oval shape, symbolising the tomb (an ancient one) in red - the lover's blood and at the same time the wine. The poet uses the symbolic approach of wine relating it to love, pureness and wine itself. It's a symbolic, abstract and figurative painting.