Abū Zayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd

The earliest known work by Abu Zayd is an enameled bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (see illustration),[1] one of the first examples of mina'i ware, so the group has been assigned to him.

[2] Perhaps the most famous work in the Kashan style is a large scalloped plate dated December 1210 in the Freer Gallery of Art (see illustration).

It was the subject of article by Richard Ettinghausen, who with Grace Guest analyzed the unusually complex iconography of a horse and seven figures - five of them standing, one seated, and one floating in a fishpond in the lower exergue.

His most important projects, carried out with another potter from Kashan, Muhammad ibn Abi Tahir (see Abu Taher (family)), were the decorations added to the tomb chambers in the shrines of Fatima at Qum and Imam Reza in Mashad.

[8] 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".