The center of the tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with a Dutch brown sailing vessel sailing out next to the light house in the stormy water of the sea & the date 1934. In the rim the text: * AL BLIJVEN WIND EN ZEE ON STEGEN - VOLHARDING BRENGT ONS TOCH DE ZEGE* ( Wind and weather notwithstanding, perseverance will make us victorious.)
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND Anno 1934
Painter: VL = Theodorus A. B. van Lingen
Employment dates: 28 march 1893 - 1945
Diam.: 18,3 cm. (7,2 inches.)