Antique Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Great War Plate. IN EXPECTATION - 1919.

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with a balance, a sword and a lawbook with LEX (= Law.) & IN  AFWACHTING  1919. (In Expectation.) 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 1919

Painter: VR  =   A. E.V/  Roggeveen.
Employment dates:  1892 - 1945.    

Literature:

This item is shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft  Page 137  - Fig. 11 - 46 .
5800 plates were produced.

Diam.:  18 cm. (7,1 inches.) 

Weight: 267 grams.