AN ARCHAISTIC SAFAVID-REVIVAL PORTRAIT OF A CUPBEARER (SAQI) Reza 'Abbasi and Safavid Isfahan School style, Qajar Iran, 19th century Ink, opaque pigments, and gold on lined paper, the vertical-format three-quarters portrait depicting a young cupbearer (saqi) standing in an idealised gold-highlighted natural setting, holding a tall, pyriform bottle and a small drinking cup, wearing a long ankle-length coat with gold buttons and a conical hat with a lateral sloping brim, his overall attire and style reminiscent of Safavid youths portrayed in Reza 'Abbasi's drawings, laid onto a gold-sprinkled cream album border enhanced with cut-out and pasted triangular manuscript illuminations with floral scrolls in polychromes and gold, a band of foliage dressing the outer border, mounted, glazed and framed, 42cm x 29.5cm including the frame.

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