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| The Ardabil carpet, woven in northwest Persia for the shrine of Sheikh Safi at Ardabil in 1539/40 ad, in its purpose-designed display case in the V&A’s new Jameeel Gallery of Islamic Art, with a selection of Persian and Turkish ceramic dishes and tiled panels in the background
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21 July 2006
London's Victoria and Albert Museum opened their new Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art yesterday, 20 July 2006. The highlight is the Ardabil carpet, made in Iran in 1539 it is the world's oldest dated carpet, commissioned as one of a pair by the ruler of Iran, Shah Tahmasp, for the shrine of his ancestor, Shaykh Safi al-Din. The new Gallery also houses over four hundred treasures from the V&A's vast collection of more than ten thousand Islamic objects, dating from the Islamic caliphate of the 8th and 9th centuries to the 1930s and ranging in area from Spain to Afghanistan, Turkey and Iran. The three year renovation, by architects Softroom, has created an outstanding new home for the collection thanks to a substantial donation from the Jameel family. See HALI 147 for a full preview of the galleries. |
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