A Youth in a Striped Coat, Persia, Isfahan, early 17th Century

Gouache heightened with gold on paper, depicting a beturbaned youth standing in a striped robe, holding a tall-necked bottle, surrounded by tall leafy shrubs in gold, laid down on card with applied borders decorated with polychrome scrolling flowers, inscriptions above and below 

Maggs Brothers, London, mid 1960s

Islamic Art from Princeton Collections, The Art Museum of Princeton University, 20 May-30 June 1974

R. Ettinghausen, Islamic Art from Princeton Collections, Princeton, 1974, no.22
Maggs Bros, London, Bulletin No.5, April 1963, item 129

In reasonably good overall condition, tear running through the middle has been repaired, some light creasing, otherwise good, as viewed.
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A youth dressed in a similar black and white striped robe can be seen in miniature (possibly the fronstispiece of an album or manuscript) signed by Reza-i 'Abbasi ('Feast in a Spring Landscape', published in London 2004, p.124-5, no.74-75).