#mina'i

[bagdemagus]

Seljuq-era ceramics at the Metropolitan Museum of Art From top:

Bowl with Musicians, Iran, Kashan, mid-13th century, luster-painted Bowl with Fishes, Iran, Kashan, early 13th century, underglaze painted Bowl with Ruler and Attendants, Iran, 12th-13th century, mina’i ware with glaze, gilding, and enamel

[timur-i-lang]

Bahram Gur and Azada

Mina'i bowl, Iran, 12th-13th cen.

"Some of the mina'i ceramics illustrate stories from the Persian epic, the Shahnama, predating its earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts by nearly a century. This bowl depicts the episode of Prince Bahram Gur hunting with Azada, his favorite concubine. Azada challenges Bahram Gur to a hunting feat, but when he succeeds, she pities the slain gazelles and reproaches him. In anger, he tramples her under his camel’s feet. The painter has conflated two different moments into one scene."

[timur-i-lang]

Wine Ewer

Iran, Kashan, late 12th or early 13th century