PAIR OF XENON WARE VESSELS Ca. 400 - 300 BC. A pair of miniature black-glazed pottery vessels. The kantharos has a biconical body elevated on a small circular foot and two high-arching handles joining the midsection and rim. It is decorated with scroll motifs in rhomboid-shaped frames on both sides. The skyphos, with a tapered deep cup on a ring base, features D-shaped side handles and an everted rim. Its body is decorated with a chevron pattern framed by horizontal lines. For similar see: The Louvre Museum, Collection number: LL 511. Size: 45-55mm x 50-60mm; Weight: 65g. Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgium art market; Daniel Bogaerts, Brussels, 1995.