Antique Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Commemorative Plate Middelburg 1574 - 1924.

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with the Malle Betje Tower of the Town hall in Middelburg with the red-white-blue coloured Dutch flag on the top of the tower and 1574 1924 and under in a banderol MIDDELBURG and on the rim between geometric figures
LUCTOR ET EMERGO (Ik worstel en kom boven / I struggle and emerge; 1572 – 1574 Siege of Middelburg by the Spanish troops.
For the Prince Willem of Orange. 350 years celebration of independence from Spain.)
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
De PORCELEYNE FLES  -  ROYAL DELFT
DELFT – HOLLAND   ANNO  1922
Painter’s initials: CK = Goeog Conrad Kunz
Employment dates: 7 Sept.. 1891 - 1940

Diam.: 18,3 cm.  (7,2 inches.)      
Weight: 233 grams