Ink and gouache on paper, 2 lines of text in Nasta'liq script in black ink in two columns above and below the painting, the miniature depicting a lady seated holding a bottle and glass, a manuscript, vase and jug sitting on the table beside her, signed at the bottom left, inner border with light gold scrolling flowers, margins ruled in colours and gold, laid down on an album page with similar foliate decoration in gold  

In good overall condition, some rubbing to the painting, some minor creasing, but colours still strong, album page mounted on greaseproof paper, as viewed.
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Mirza Muhammad Al-Husaini is likely to be the artist who is recorded as having studied under the great Safavid artist Reza-i Abbasi and a further drawing of whose is illustrated in M.A. Karimzadeh Tabrizi, The Lives & Art of Old Painters of Iran, Vol. 3, London, 1991, p.1308 & fig.1542.

This miniature can be compared with two other examples sold in these rooms 14 October 1999, lot 51 (by the artist Muhammad Tahir) and 7 April 1975, lot 103, particularly the architectural features of the latter. A further comparison can be made with a portrait of the same period of a woman by a fountain by 'Ali Quli Beyg Jebadar, circa 1660 (published in A. Soudavar, Art of the Persian Courts, New York, 1992, p.370, no.148). The figures in both paintings share certain features, such as their jewellery, drapery and accoutre💝ments.