Abbasid Art is a historical phase of Islamic art defined as the visual and decorative production—especially architecture, ceramics (including lustreware), textiles, metalwork, and calligraphy—created under the Abbasid Caliphate (c. 750–1258 CE), distinguished by court-centered styles associated with Baghdad and Samarra, the development of abstract geometric and vegetal (arabesque) ornament and beveled carving, and the synthesis of Mesopotamian, Sasanian, and Central Asian artistic traditions.