Antique Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Great War Plate. KEEP BRAVE SEA - 1915.

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with a Dutch brown sailing vessel in windy water on sea. In the sail dated 1915.  &. Houdt moedig zee. (keep brave sea.) The rim with the patriotic Aplles of Orange. (=Dutch Royal Family.)

Designed by Leon Senf

Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:

DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT 

DELFT - HOLLAND & AK = 1915

Painter: AG  = Andreas Petrus Guerrain

Employment dates: June 6th 1887 - 1938.

Literature:

This item is shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft  Page 136  - Fig. 11 -40.
Some 3000 plates were produced.