A Marble Torso of Harpocrates, circa 1st Century B.C.

standing with his left leg forward and his right hand formerly raised up to his face, remains of a support below his left hip.

English private collection, London, acquired in the late 1970s/ early 1980s on the London art market (Chiswick Auctions, Colville Road, London, June 10th, 2014, no. 287)

For related examples see: two statuettes, Archaeological Museum of Dion, Macedonia, Greece (http://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statuettes_of_Harpocrates,_the_Companion_of_Isis.JPG), Statuette, Antiquities Museum - Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Greco-Roman Museum, inv. no. 29450, height 62.5 cm. (http://antiquities.bibalex.org/Collection/Detail.aspx?lang=en&a=1147), small torso with vessel, Antiquities Museum - Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Greco-Roman Museum, height 17 cm. (http://antiquities.bibalex.org/Collection/Detail.aspx?a=492&lang=en), statuette(?), Thessaloniki, Archaeological Museum (G. Despinis, T. Stefanidou-Tiveriou, and  E. Voutiras, Catalogue of Sculpture in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, vol. I, 1997, p. 115, no. 86, figs. 221-225 [http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/objekt/110086]).