minai ware

minai ware, in Islāmic ceramics, bowls, beakers, tankards, and bottles with enamel painting and gilding on a white ground, often with rich figure compositions in bands. Similar vessels in animal and human form were also produced. In the 13th and 14th centuries Sultanabad (now Solṭānābād, Iran) and Varāmīn turned out minai ware.