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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 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.” While much of the enameled decoration on this bowl is now no longer extant, parts of a kufic inscription on the inner and outer rims and a central rosette on the interior, formed of red gilded lines against a blue background, are still visible.
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