Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Commemorative Plate KLM PH - AIP Fokker F.XVIII - 1933

The tin glazed  earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with in the centre  the flying airplane PH - AIP, a Fokker F.XVIII, above the coat of arms of Amsterdam and Batavia (Djakarta) and PELIKAAN   K.L.M. DECEMBER 1933. The rim with some floral swags  and  the Dutch text:

MIJN KERSTGROET BRACHT IK AAN D’OOSTERSTRANDEN ‘k VLOOG DAARVOOR HONDERD UUR,

MIJN NIEUWJAARSWENSCH AAN D’ LAGE LANDEN  VROEG ’N REIS VAN KORTER DUUR

(My X-mas greetings iIbrought to the beaches of the east, I flew for that 100 hours, my new year wishes for the low countries  asked a journey of shorter time.)

Designed by Piet Senf.

Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:

DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT

DELFT - HOLLAND & BD = 1934  

Two painters worked on this plate

Painter: JV = Johannes D. van Velzen.
Employment dates: 1886 - 1938.
Painter: AG  = Andreas P. Guerrain.
Employment dates: 1887-1938
Literature
DELFTWARE - History of a national product De Porceleyne Fles Page 162 - 163

Diam.:  18,2 cm. (7,2 inches.)

Weight: 179 grams.

The PH- AIP Pelikaan left Amsterdam on December 18th 1933 for a fast Christmas flight to Batavia in the Dutch Indies (Djakarta.) In a record time it arrived in Batavia on December 22th. Four days later it went back to Amsterdam and arrived even faster on the evening of December 30th. 20.000 people came to the airport to the  honour the crew of four men.