holding his right forefinger to his smiling mouth and his thumb to the chin, his wavy hair arranged in a top-knot and tapering braid across the crown, cascading on either side in drilled voluted curls, braided in a sidelock, and falling over the nape of the neck, a circular mortise and flat square area on top of the head for insertion of the Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt; no restorations.

English private collection, probably acquired in the 1970s or earlier (consistent with bevelled wood plinth and plaster mount)

As shown. Note 3/4-inch long chip across proper right cheek, chipped index finger, and minor abrasions on curls on proper left side of hair.
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For a complete figure of Eros-Harpokrates cf. LIMC, vol. 4, p. 420, no. 39a, pl. 243.