Very Fine, Unusual Antique Needle Lace Medallion of Native American Figure ceramic jar with pipe finely done--rich red with flowers

finely done--rich red with flowers on all sides against a gold labyrinthine design

but based on the color

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

which I almost removed but decided to leave on as it is part of this board's pretty fantastic patina

Very Fine, Unusual Antique Needle Lace Medallion of Native American Figure ceramic jar with pipe finely done--rich red with flowersAfter 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