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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 7092133, member: 8267&quot;]Can you tell what the base material is? Does it feel light weight or heavy?</p><p><br /></p><p>The red material could be a typical lacquer base used to prepare a surface for gilding in much Asian lacquerware. If that is the structure, I would expect the base material to be wood.</p><p><br /></p><p>He may be Chinese, or possibly SE Asian (eg. Thailand). Monkeys are popular subjects in Chinese carvings. Here are a couple of Chinese monkey toggles in stone and brass, one in nephrite with a very similar theme:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]421557[/ATTACH] </p><p><a href="https://www.buddhamuseum.com/nephrite-jade-monkey-mother-and-playful.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.buddhamuseum.com/nephrite-jade-monkey-mother-and-playful.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.buddhamuseum.com/nephrite-jade-monkey-mother-and-playful.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.michitrading.com/chineseantiques/chinese11.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.michitrading.com/chineseantiques/chinese11.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.michitrading.com/chineseantiques/chinese11.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.trocadero.com/stores/bhadrakalpa/items/1336088/Antique-Chinese-Brass-Toggle-Monkey/enlargement4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.trocadero.com/stores/bhadrakalpa/items/1336088/Antique-Chinese-Brass-Toggle-Monkey/enlargement4" rel="nofollow">https://www.trocadero.com/stores/bhadrakalpa/items/1336088/Antique-Chinese-Brass-Toggle-Monkey/enlargement4</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I think your monkey is holding an Asian peach, a symbol of longevity, rather than a coconut.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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