Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight first edition 1906 sterling silver & pewter using

sterling silver & pewter using the lost wax process

3/8" diameter

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

It feels completely resolved

founded in 1909

Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight first edition 1906 sterling silver & pewter usingI'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