Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight wheels and negative space--made all the

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

The wood is well worn with some cracking

with a forged metal blade held to the wooden body with two tangs

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

Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight wheels and negative space--made all theI'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