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Abu Zayd [Abu Zayd ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Zayd]
( fl Kashan, 1186–1219). Persian potter. At least 15 tiles and vessels signed by Abu Zayd are known, more signed works than are known for any other medieval Iranian potter. He frequently added the phrase ‘in his own hand’ (bi-khattihi) after his name, so that it has been misread as Abu Zayd-i Bazi or Abu Rufaza. His earliest piece is an enamelled (Pers. mina’i) bowl dated 4 Muharram 583 (26 March 1186; ex-Tabbagh priv. col.), but he is best known for his lustrewares. A fragment of a vase dated 1191 (ex-Bahrami priv. col., see Watson, pl. 53) is in the Miniature style, but most of his later pieces, such as a bowl dated 1202 (Tehran, priv. col., see Bahrami, pl. 16a) and a dish dated 1219 (The Hague, Gemeentemus.), are in the Kashan style, which he is credited with developing (see ISLAMIC ART, §V, 3(iii)). He collaborated with Muhammad ibn Abi Tahir (see ABU TAHIR, (1)) on the two most important lustreware projects of the period, the decoration of the tomb chambers in the shrines of Fatima at Qum and Imam Riza at Mashhad. Abu Zayd’s signature on pieces in the two most important techniques of overglaze luxury ceramics is one of the main reasons that enamelled ware, like lustreware, can be attributed to Kashan.
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