diff --git a/packages/providers/src.ts/base-provider.ts b/packages/providers/src.ts/base-provider.ts
index e352a4536e..68d2682db1 100644
--- a/packages/providers/src.ts/base-provider.ts
+++ b/packages/providers/src.ts/base-provider.ts
@@ -404,6 +404,8 @@ export class Resolver implements EnsResolver {
     async getAvatar(): Promise<null | Avatar> {
         const linkage: Array<{ type: string, content: string }> = [ ];
         try {
+            // test data for ricmoo.eth
+            //const avatar = "eip155:1/erc721:0x265385c7f4132228A0d54EB1A9e7460b91c0cC68/29233";
             const avatar = await this.getText("avatar");
             if (avatar == null) { return null; }
 
@@ -475,7 +477,7 @@ export class Resolver implements EnsResolver {
                         const metadata = await fetchJson(metadataUrl);
 
                         // Pull the image URL out
-                        if (!metadata || typeof(metadata.image) !== "string" || !metadata.image.match(/^https:\/\//i)) {
+                        if (!metadata || typeof(metadata.image) !== "string" || !metadata.image.match(/^(https:\/\/|data:)/i)) {
                             return null;
                         }
                         linkage.push({ type: "metadata", content: JSON.stringify(metadata) });
diff --git a/packages/web/src.ts/index.ts b/packages/web/src.ts/index.ts
index 9f72c7ed81..afd0e9b508 100644
--- a/packages/web/src.ts/index.ts
+++ b/packages/web/src.ts/index.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 "use strict";
 
-import { encode as base64Encode } from "@ethersproject/base64";
+import { decode as base64Decode, encode as base64Encode } from "@ethersproject/base64";
 import { hexlify, isBytesLike } from "@ethersproject/bytes";
 import { shallowCopy } from "@ethersproject/properties";
 import { toUtf8Bytes, toUtf8String } from "@ethersproject/strings";
@@ -150,6 +150,33 @@ export function _fetchData<T = Uint8Array>(connection: string | ConnectionInfo,
             };
         }
     }
+    const reData = new RegExp("^data:([a-z0-9-]+/[a-z0-9-]+);base64,(.*)$", "i");
+    const dataMatch = ((url) ? url.match(reData): null);
+    if (dataMatch) {
+        try {
+            const response = {
+                statusCode: 200,
+                statusMessage: "OK",
+                headers: { "content-type": dataMatch[1] },
+                body: base64Decode(dataMatch[2])
+            };
+
+            let result: T = <T><unknown>response.body;
+            if (processFunc) {
+                result = processFunc(response.body, response);
+            }
+            return Promise.resolve(<T><unknown>result);
+
+        } catch (error) {
+            logger.throwError("processing response error", Logger.errors.SERVER_ERROR, {
+                body: bodyify(dataMatch[1], dataMatch[2]),
+                error: error,
+                requestBody: null,
+                requestMethod: "GET",
+                url: url
+            });
+        }
+    }
 
     if (body) {
         options.method = "POST";