Soft metal tiger menuki with gilded stripes and spots. When tiger was introduced to Japan by paintings and fur there was a mix up. Japanese artists thought that striped one was a male and spotted one was a female. While in fact striped is a tiger and spotted is a leopard. So while intention of the artist was to show male and female tiger. They actually made menuki of tiger and leopard.
Size:
1: 34 mm x 21 mm x 6 mm
2: 33 mm x 21 mm x 7 mm
