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LOT 0083
Graeco-Roman Bronze Harpocrates Figure
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
4 7/8 in. (283 grams total, 12.4 cm including stand).
Standing nude and supporting a rearing uraeus on his left arm, remains of his side-lock on the right shoulder; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex Elsa Blohsh-Diener collection, Bern, Switzerland.
Property of a French collector.
Literature
Cf. more elaborate version of a similar figure in the British Museum under accession no.1825,1112.1.; cf. Reinach, S., Répertoire de la statuaire Grecque et Romaine, Paris, 1897, p.481, nos.8-9.
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