Antique Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft LUCAS BOLS Serving Platter - 1908

The tin glazed earthenware  oval platter decorated in shades of blue with two Dutch brown sailingvessels and a windmill in a Dutch landscape in a cartouche and surrounded with stylized flowers & ELB  ANNO 1575 (= Heirs / Erven Lucas Bols - Amsterdam Anno 1575.) the oldest  Genever distilled  brand LUCAS BOLS in Amsterdam, established in Amsterdam in 1575.

Signed on the bottom in underglaze blue for:

DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT

DELFT - HOLLAND & AD  = 1908

Painter’s initials: TD  =  Lambertus ten Dam    

Employment dates: 1890 - jan. 1919.

Literature:

This platter is shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft  Page 204  - Fig.14 -12 

Length: 41,4 cm. (16,3 inches.)

Width:   30,4 cm. (12 inches.)

Weight: 1.345 grams.