PAIR OF XENON WARE VESSELS Ca. 400 - 300 BC. A pair of miniature black-glazed pottery vessels. The oinochoe has a trefoil lip, a side handle, a ring base, and is adorned with a central palmette motif flanked by double-ended scrolls. The olpe features a tapering body, a short neck with a flat everted rim, a loop handle, and is decorated with strokes around the shoulder and a central band of laurel leaves. For similar see: The Louvre Museum, Collection number: ED 509, ED 381. Christie's, Live Auction 7207, Antiquties, Lot 248 (decoration). Size: 60-60mm x 60-55mm; Weight: 90g. 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.