This ivory figure was identified as genuine by Evans but is now widely regarded as fake. Evans purchased it in Paris and identified it as a ‘Boy-God’, and a companion piece to the ‘Boston Goddess’. When Evans died in 1941 it passed on to his executor, Jacob Hirsch, and was later acquired by the Seattle Art Museum.
The photograph shows a replica in the Ashmolean collection.
Bibliography
Evans, Arthur. 1930. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, III, pp. 442-450, fig. 309
Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 17