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An ornate trefoil arch serves as the backplate, decorated with a flame-foliage border and terminating in multi-headed serpent deities, nagas. This framing device (torana), supported by two half-columns, follows the conventions of temple architecture around Angkor in Cambodia.\n\nThe cult of Shiva was paramount under the early Khmer rulers. The cult image in many of the mountain-temples was Shiva in the form of a linga. Representations of Shiva in human form were also produced, ranging from life-size stone sculptures to bronzes of this scale.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"copper alloy","id":"x40014"}],"techniques":[{"text":"lost wax","id":"AAT53113"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Copper alloy (probably bronze)","categories":[{"text":"Hinduism","id":"THES48941"},{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"},{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"},{"text":"Bronze","id":"THES49033"}],"styles":[{"text":"Koh Ker","id":"AAT19143"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2006AT8564"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"47a","id":"THES49797"},"free":"","case":"CA017","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Figure","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Cambodia","id":"x30020"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"First half of 10th century","earliest":"0900-01-01","latest":"0950-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"15.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"7.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"This object was purchased from Alex Biancardi (Walmore Collection) in 1988.\r\n\r\nAlexander Biancardi (1924–1999) was a collector and dealer whose interest in Asian art, particularly medieval religious sculpture from South and South-East Asia. The V&A holds a substantial group of objects associated with him which were acquired between the late 1980s and late 1990s, through purchases, gifts, and bequests from Biancardi and his family. Several of the works are currently on display.\r\n\r\nBorn in Alexandria, Egypt, Biancardi moved to Australia in 1947, where he entered the textile trade. In the early 1960s, he relocated to France and worked for a Dutch textile company with business interests in Asia. His exposure to the region led him to begin collecting Asian art in the 1950s, a pursuit he continued into the 1990s. He returned to Australia later in life. 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