Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight first edition 1906 or displayed in egg cups

or displayed in egg cups

which makes it all the more beautiful to me

7 1/8" long

as its round and flat form is a common one among them

Brutalist in sensibility

Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight first edition 1906 or displayed in egg cupsI'm certain that this wonderful gilded cast bronze rabbit (I believe a rabbit, but a bit of an unusual one with those large flat floppy ears) is Asian, and was probably made as a weight of some sort (it resembles some mat weights and scroll weights, and some opium weights as well). But I've searched and searched and not found another quite like it, though there are a fair number of small gilded cast bronze animals out there Japanese and Chinese, as