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Lot 8

OPPOSED PAIR OF JAPANESE LACQUER VASES BY IKUHIKO AKABORI
Square columnar forms with ribbed detail highlighted with red lacquer on black ground and black lacquer on red ground. Both with copper insets. Signed to bases.
Japan
c 2000s

35h x 12w x 12d

Estimate $1,500 - $2,000

Sold for $1,700

Minor chips along bottom of both vases, light scratches. Water markings on copper insets and oxidation inside from use, soldering visible from assumed initial production.


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Lesley Kehoe Galleries Melbourne, 2004

Modern Design

AUCTION
Sale: LJ8801
6:00pm - 18 November 2025
Hawthorn

VIEWING
Fri 14 - Sun 16 November, 10am - 4pm
14 Duke Street, Abbotsford VIC

CONTACT
Rebecca Stormont
modern@leonardjoel.com.au


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