* A MINA'I POTTERY BOTTLE VASE, CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1200 * A MINA'I POTTERY BOTTLE VASE, CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1200 * A MINA'I POTTERY BOTTLE VASE, CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1200 * A MINA'I POTTERY BOTTLE VASE, CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1200 * A MINA'I POTTERY BOTTLE VASE, CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1200

* A MINA'I POTTERY BOTTLE VASE, CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1200

Reference: ART3005392

A Persian pottery bottle vase, rising from a short foot to a compressed body tapering to thin cylindrical neck, with a garlic-head mouth and short upright mouth-rim. The white exterior painted in a variety of overglaze enamels with a series of crouching and kneeling figures, above a series of harpies, interspersed with polychrome cintamani roundels. Height: 20 cm.

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Switzerland.
Formerly Japanese collection, collected in the 1980-90s. Exhibited at: “Exhibition of Persian Art, London, 1931, n° 44(?)

CATALOGUE NOTE
Mina'i ware is a type of Persian pottery developed in Kashan Persia, in the decades leading up to the Mongol invasion of Persia in 1219, after which production ceased. It is significant as the first pottery to use overglaze enamels, painted over the ceramic glaze fixed by a main glost firing, after painting the wares were given a second firing at a lower temperature. "Mina'i": a term only used for these wares much later, means "enamelled" in the Persian language.The technique is also known as haft-rang, "seven colours" in Persian. This was the term used by the near-contemporary writer Abu al-Qasim Kasani, who had a pottery background.

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