Tile in the Style of Mina'i Ware

19th or early 20th century with earlier elements (Seljuq (?))

18.5 cm 17.9 cm 2 cm

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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 t...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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