Antique Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Crisis Charger with a Lighthouse - 1921.

The center of the antique tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue in a roundel with a lighthouse on a stormy sea with Dutch brown sailing vessels entering the harbour and in the front a man in a rowing boat.In the dark cloud on the left written CRISIS and on the right cloud OORLOG. (War). Surrounded with in the top *1921* and under:
Slechts door arbeid, tot het licht.   1921. (Only through labour will we get to the light.)
The rim with rotating stylized flowers and floral swags.
Designed by Leon Senf.
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES  - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  &  AQ = 1921
Painter: HB = Hendrik Christian Bottelier
Employment dates: 1880 - Feb. 5th, 1924.
Literature:
A smaller item is shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft   Page 142 - Fig. 11 -63

Diam.:  34,4 cm.  (13,6 inches.)      
Weight: 1.358 grams.