Very Fine, Unusual Antique Needle Lace Medallion of Native American Figure ceramic jar with pipe but based on the color

but based on the color

The giraffe has jointed legs as well as nails for horns and tail (painted with the same pattern detail as the rest of him)

base and tail feathers

which features a buffalo emerging from the side of the round shield in a manner so similar to this that I wonder if this plate was directly inspired by it

published by the American Sports Publishing Company

Very Fine, Unusual Antique Needle Lace Medallion of Native American Figure ceramic jar with pipe but based on the colorAfter doing some research, I have a theory that this very fine handmade needle lace medallion was created by an Eduord Marie Verpooten (Edy Verporte), a native of Belgium who lived in Spokane Washington in the late 19th early 20th century. There is a figural medallion commemorating the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition of 1909 held in the collection of the Smithsonian that is very similar in manner, and the closest thing I can find this. It makes sense