Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight wheels Some wear and light rusting

Some wear and light rusting to the candleholder

I had never seen one of these planters before

6" long (7 1/2" with handle)

The wood is well worn with some cracking

Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight wheels Some wear and light rustingI'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