Kansas City 1906 Priests of Pallas Masked Ball Souvenir Cloisonne Plate / Plaque Homespun with wonderfully detailed trees

with wonderfully detailed trees

see photos): a few of the knobs on the drawers are chipped (it appears they have been restrained since)

this is a bit of a weird one

It measures 5 1/2" across at lip and 3 3/4" tall

Kansas City 1906 Priests of Pallas Masked Ball Souvenir Cloisonne Plate / Plaque Homespun with wonderfully detailed treesThis one is especially for my Kansas City friends, and carries a pretty interesting history. Plus, I think it is a pretty gorgeous thing! The P. O. P stands for "Priests of Pallas", which was a huge, extravagant week long event founded in 1887 by Kansas City leaders with the intent of re defining the city as "the Athens of the West", hence the image of Athena at the bottom center of the plate. Among many other things, the festival (which ran annually