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Source Description
Mina’i is a modern collectors’ term for ceramics made in Iran during the late 12th to early 13th centuries. The term mina’i, translates as “enamelled” in Persian, designating the colored glass pigments used to paint detailed figural decoration on vessels or tiles, which were then fixed on the ceramic base by multiple firings. The use of a wide range of colors, including turquoise, red, green, purple, and black, also led these types of ceramics to be called by the Persian term “haft rang,” or “seven colors.”A central figure on a camel, with a harpy located behind him, follows a four-footed animal and a bird. The scene is encircled by a kufic inscription in blue, and a pseudo inscription has been painted around the exterior body of this footed bowl.
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16953
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Bowl with Man Riding Camel
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Bowl with Man Riding Camel
description
Mina’i is a modern collectors’ term for ceramics made in Iran during the late 12th to early 13th centuries. The term mina’i, translates as “enamelled” in Persian, designating the colored glass pigments used to paint detailed figural decoration on vessels or tiles, which were then fixed on the ceramic base by multiple firings. The use of a wide range of colors, including turquoise, red, green, purple, and black, also led these types of ceramics to be called by the Persian term “haft rang,” or “seven colors.”A central figure on a camel, with a harpy located behind him, follows a four-footed animal and a bird. The scene is encircled by a kufic inscription in blue, and a pseudo inscription has been painted around the exterior body of this footed bowl.
provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
late 12th-early 13th century (Seljuq (?))
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en
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bowls (vessels)
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cm
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6.7
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16.2
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H: 2 5/8 × Diam: 6 3/8 in. (6.7 × 16.2 cm)
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fritware, white underglaze, black, blue, brown, dark green, and dark purple overglaze enamel
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