Antique Dutch Orange, Blue & White Royal Delft Great War Plate. THE STORM BREAKS OUT - 1914

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with a Dutch brown sailingvessel in a Dutch landscape with a windmill in stormy weather and the text: 1 AUG. 1914 (Start of the Great War.) & De storm breekt los. (The storm breaks out.) The rim with the orange coloured 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 & AN = 1918
Painter’s initials : VL = Jan van Lijnschooten
Employment dates: 16 Sept. 1889 - 1935
Literature:
This item is shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft Page 136 - Fig. 11 - 39. Some 4910 plates were produced.
NB. This is the 1918 plate, not the earlier 1914  plate!!!         

Diam.:  17,9 cm.  (7 inches.) 
Weight: 283 grams.