Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight first edition 1906 Brutalist in sensibility

Brutalist in sensibility

founded in 1909

It feels completely resolved

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

7 1/8" long

Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight first edition 1906 Brutalist in sensibilityI'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