Antique Blue & White Royal Delft Great War Plate. PAX VERSAILLES - JAN 1920

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with a standing sword and sun with PAX (Peace.) On the sword a banderol with the text: JAN. VERSAILLES 1920  (= January.) Peace treaty after the great war in january 1920. The rim with the Patriotic Apples of Orange. (= Dutch Royal Family.)

Designed by Leon Senf. 

Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:

DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT

DELFT - HOLLAND -  ANNO 1920

Painter:: JB  = Jurrien Adrianus Burghoorn

Employment dates: Oct.17th 1892 -1949

Literature:

This item is shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft  Page 137  - Fig. 11 - 48. 6400 plates were produced. 

Diam.:  18 cm. (7,1 inches.)

Weight: 311 grams.