Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight first edition 1906 as its round and flat

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

with traditional costumes representing all of the states of the Soviet Union at the time

7 1/8" long

Brutalist in sensibility

Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight first edition 1906 as its round and flatI'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