Mina'i ware (overglaze enamel)
Loza mina'i (esmalte sobrecubierta)
- Date
- c. 1180 · confidence medium
- Place
- Kashan, Isfahan, Iran
- Credited to
- Seljuk potters of Kashan
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
Polychrome decoration painted with enamels over an already fired glaze and fixed in a second, low-temperature firing. It is the first overglaze enamel technique, which greatly expanded the ceramic colour palette.
Production ceased after the Mongol invasion (1220).
What it led to
- figurative painting on ceramics
- Chinese and European overglaze enamels
- two-firing technique