A COURTLY BANQUET IN A GARDEN PROPERTY OF THE LATE BRUNO CARUSO (1927 - 2018) COLLECTION Possibly Provincial School Shiraz, late Safavid Iran, 18th century Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the vertical composition depicting a courtly banquet en plein air , the front row of attendants bringing several trays of goods into the scene, in the second row a young naked boy getting shouted at by a military man wearing a purple coat, the prince sitting under a canopy eating fresh fruits, cypress trees in the background, at the top 6ll. of black ink n asta'liq poetic quatrains extracted from Sonnet 467 by Amir Khosrow Dihlawi, within orange, blue, golden and black rules, pasted onto a later, possibly modern, border decorated with trees, birds, gazelles, herons and other vegetal motifs against a peachy-coloured ground, 32cm x 20.5cm.