Jug with Walking Sphinxes

late 12th-early 13th century (Seljuq (?))

12.9 cm 12 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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Dikran Kelekian, Constantinople, New York, and Paris, [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase [as found at Rhadjes]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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