Two portraits, Iran qâjâr, dated 1842 Gouache and ink portraits on paper, one enhanced with gold, of a full-length man and woman. The man wears a kolah-namadi and a blue coat with a printed belt and a khanjar tucked inside. The female cupbearer is richly dressed in a floral jacket, matching skirt and hat, and adorned with necklaces, cuff bracelets and bazubands. She holds a bottle in her right hand and a cup in her left. On the lower left of each portrait, an inscription in Persian nasta'liq ink reading "shodam az jan [?] gholam ali" / "I became a slave of 'Ali with all my heart" and the date 1258 H / 1842. Portraits encircled by a thin red border and a border stamped with European-inspired floral decoration and mounted in album format on a cardboard page. Dim. portraits: 16.5 x 9.3; 18.3 x 12.2 cm; pages: 22.4 x 15.4 and 22.2 x 15.8 cm Stains, folds, minor accidents and restorations.