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'''Abū Zayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd''' ({{Floruit|1186–1219}} in [[Kashan]]), commonly referred to as '''Abu Zayd''' or '''Abu Zayd Kashani''', is the most famous potter of medieval Iran, who worked in the two most expensive overglaze techniques, enamel ([[Mina'i ware|mina'i]]) and luster, and left behind the greatest number of signed works{{sfn|Blair|2008|pp=155}}.

At least 15 tiles and vessels signed by Abu Zayd are known<ref name="Grove">{{Cite web |url =https://doi-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T000296 | title = Abu Zayd [Abū Zayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Zayd] |author= | website = [[Grove Art Online]] | year = 2003 | doi = 10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T000296 |language = en}}</ref>, dated from 26 march 1186 to 1219. The earliest known work by Abu Zayd is an enameled bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (see illustration){{sfn|Blair|2008|pp=155}}, one of the first examples of [[mina'i ware]], so the group has been assigned to him<ref name="Enamel">{{Cite web |url =https://doi-org.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T041771 | title = Islamic art V. Ceramics. (e) Enamelled wares. |author= Sheila R. Canby| website = [[Grove Art Online]] | year = 2003 | doi = 10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T041771 |language = en}}</ref>. Still,Despite hethis fact Abu Zayd is best known for his [[lustreware]]s<ref name="Grove"/>. As [[Oliver Watson]] has pointed out, enameled bowl from 1186 is too accomplished to have been a first work, and Abu Zayd must have made earlier objects that we do not know about. Watson discerned the three styles of painting used to decorate [[Kashan]] lustreware - "monumental", most indebted to works produced earlier in Egypt and Syria, "miniature" and "Kashan". Enameled bowl from 1186 is in miniature style, clearly inspired by book painting. It seems that Abu Zayd was a key figure in the development of the miniature style in 1180s, as he was responsible for a group of enameled bowls dated 1186 and 1187 (see liiustrations), as well as a fragmentary luster vase dated 1191{{sfn|Blair|2008|pp=156-157}}.

These two style were then replaced by the Kashan style, designed expressly to show off the luster technique to its best advantage. The first dated example of the Kashan style is dated Septembrer 1199 and from this time onwards, all dated lustrewares are in the Kashan style, including several works signed by Abu Zayd{{sfn|Blair|2008|pp=157}}, who is credited with developing of this new manner of decoration<ref name="Grove"/>. 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 Dunham Guest|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{{sfn|Blair|2008|pp=157-158}}. According to Oliver Watson, the most important of Abu Zayd's surviving work consists of tilling. 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 [[Fatima Masumeh Shrine|of Fatima]] at [[Qum]] and [[Imam Reza shrine]] in [[Mashad]]. In the shrines his signature appears on frieze tiles, star tiles, and, at Mashhad, a large [[mihrab]] (see illustration), which "is his finest work, showing the highest quality of calligraphy, molded arabesques, and painted scrolling"<ref name="Iranica">{{Cite web |url =https://iranicaonline.org/articles/abu-zayd-kasani-noted-lusterware-potter | title = ABŪ ZAYD B. MOḤAMMAD KĀŠĀNĪ |author=[[Oliver Watson]] | website = [[Encyclopaedia Iranica]] | year = 1983 |language = en}}</ref>.