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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 the 1180s, as he was
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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. According to Oliver Watson, the most important of Abu Zayd's surviving work consists of tilling. His most important projects, carried out
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These two styles 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
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At least 15 tiles and vessels signed by Abu Zayd are known, dated from 26 March 1186 to 1219. The earliest known work by Abu Zayd is an enameled bowl in the
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