Antique Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Great War Plate. REMAIN ALERT - 1916

The tin glazed  earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with the standing Dutch Lion within the fence and the text: BLIJFT  WAAKZAAM. (Remain Alert.) & under the date 1916. 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 1916

Painter’s initials CK = Georg Coenrad Kunz
Employment dates: 7 Sept. 1891 - 1945.

Literature:

This item is shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft  Page 136  - Fig. 11 -41. Some 1670 plates were produced.

Diam.:  18,3 cm. (7.2 inches.)      

Weight: 293 grams.