David
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 Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject: Gallery: V&A to open Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art |
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The V&A will open the new Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art on Thursday 20 July 2006. The highlight will be the Ardabil carpet, the world’s oldest dated carpet, and one of the largest, most beautiful and historically important in the world. Made in Iran in 1539 the carpet will be the centre-piece of the new Jameel Gallery, which has been redesigned so that it can be displayed horizontally at floor level, as it would originally have been. Measuring an impressive 10.5m x 5m and described by William Morris as a design of ‘singular perfection’, it is a masterpiece of Islamic art.<img src="http://feeds.vam.ac.uk/~r/vam-pressreleases/~4/4837527"/>
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