Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight mask with horns A pretty special pair

A pretty special pair

white and black against red

travelled the country for a period as itinerant puppeteers

based on the clothing and hat

Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight mask with horns A pretty special pairI'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