An album page from Akbar's or Jahangir's workshop: opaque watercolour and gold on burnished paper, a deep lapis border with gold scrollwork, a landscape with a gold horizon, and a portrait in three-quarter or strict profile. The founders were Persian; the perspective came from European prints.
Akbar ran a studio of more than a hundred painters, so the pictures carry a workshop finish: fine contour, stippled modelling, every leaf painted. Realism in faces and animals was prized. The border is as much the artwork as the picture, a Persian habit the Mughals kept.
The page, border and landscape are cached: lapis margin, gold floral scroll, gold-flecked outer band, a marble parapet and a tree of individual leaves. The figure is drawn in three-quarter view, flat tones inside a fine contour, stipple on the shadow sides, a gold flower repeat on the jama.
No script anywhere, so nothing that could read as Quranic text used as decoration. The sitter is a private person, not an emperor, so no halo.