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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.”A man leads two camels across the center of this footed bowl, which is framed by two geometric half-sun shapes. Birds and stylized vines mark the curve of the bowl, and a kufic pseudo-inscription adorns the inner rim. A pseudo inscription encircles the exterior of the bowl.