An Attic black-figure lekythos
Attributed to the Class of Athens 581, circa 525-475 B.C.
The body decorated with four nude male dancers, the leading dancer with his hands on his hips, his followers each with left arm raised, the right on their hip, with incised details, a thick groundline below, a band of tongues and linked lotus bud on the shoulder, 19cm high注脚Provenance:
Private collection, UK.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 7 November 2002, lot 552.
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired at the above sale.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has an Attic black-figure tumbler depicting dancing youths (acc. no. 56.171.37). They are interpreted as representing young men merrymaking after a symposium and thought to be descendants of the komasts, the padded dancers originating from Corinth which entered Athenian iconography in the late 6th Century B.C.