Sultanabad ware

The Mongols, having conquered Persia during the early 13th century, sacked the Abbasid capital of Baghdad in 1258, establishing the Ilkhanate state.

[1] The Ilkhanate period (1258-1339) marked the introduction of a number of stylistic, iconographic and decorative innovations in Persian ceramics.

[2] A 1930s archeological survey of villages in the vicinity of Sultanabad, Iran uncovered that the region was a major center of Ilkhanid ceramic industry.

Ilkhanid ceramics distinguished by their heavy potting, along with thick translucent glaze were henceforth called Sultanabad ware.

Common motifs in Sultanabad ware include stylized blue and green foliage, pheasants or other birds, hares, deer.