Antique Dutch Orange, Blue & White Royal Delft Great War Plate. FRIENDS IN NEED - 1918.

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with a a kitchen interior with a boiling pan in a fireplace. With the text VRIENDEN IN NOOD. (Friends in need.) In the top of the fireplace dated Ao 1918. The rim with the  orange coloured 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 1918                  

Painter’s initials: CK = Georg Conrad Kunz

Employment dates: Sept. 7th 1891 - 1940 

Literature:

This item is shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft  Page 137  - Fig. 11 - 43. Some 4765 plates were produced.        

Diam.:  17,6 cm. (6,9  inches.) 

Weight: 283 grams.