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Eilenberg in the 1960's. It appeard on the cover of Christies, Amsterdam, 28 May 1991 (as lot 10) and was purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum from Alex Biancardi for £6250 in 1995, partly with assistance from the Neil Kreitman Foundation.\n\nAlexander Biancardi (1924–1999) was a collector and dealer who had a particualr in interest in ancient and medieval religious sculpture from South and South-East Asia. The V&amp;A holds a substantial group of objects associated with him which were acquired through purchases, gifts, and bequests from Biancardi and his family between the late 1980s and late 1990s. Several of these objects are currently on display.\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. 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