Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight wheels with red tin base and

with red tin base and head

and negative space--made all the better by the contrasting terra-cotta colored rim

I haven’t seen another quite like this one

25ʺ and 6

Some wear and light rusting to the candleholder

Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight wheels with red tin base andI'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