Amur is a small city located in Mazanderan on the Caspian Sea coast in the north of Iran. Because of the abundant rainfall, the city uses fired bricks for construction, rather than sun-dried bricks as in other areas of the country. Many of the mosques are also wooden rather than brick-built, but the walls are decorated with yellow and blue or white soft-glazed tiles. The town was often destroyed by the floods of the Haraz River, which flowed through the city, and the inhabitants collected the bricks that had been used to build it each time. It is also said that the queen’s jewel was once washed away by a flood, and the citizens searched for it.
Pottery made in the 11th or 2nd century is generally neatly shaped, with patterns in engraved patterns, covered with green, brown, or purple lead glaze, or decorated with dots.
Abstract patterns in the style of braided cords were also frequently used. Bird patterns were also frequently used, most often in the form of pigeons, and some in the waterfowl style, which is the premise of these patterns. Since this area was originally a great center for textiles, there is no other example of a textile pattern that was used exactly as it was. (Pope, A.U., “A Surveyof Persian Art”)
