Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Commemorative Plate. Frozen Zuiderzee Winter -1929

The small tin glazed earthenware plate commemorating the frozen Zuiderzee. (nowadays the IJselmeer.)   The centre decorated in  shades of blue with winterfun, including a car in front of the isle Marken on the ftozen see between the isles Marken and Urk and  FEBR * 1929 * MRT.  In the rim the text:  Toen Alleman naar Urk & Marken toog  -  Lag toen de Zuiderzee niet droog.  (When evryone moved to Urk & Marken -  Was the Zuiderzee than not dry ? )

The plate was designed by Leon Senf. 

Only 715 plates were made

DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT 

DELFT - HOLLAND & AY = 1929 

Two painters worked on this plate

Painter: VH = Gijsbertus van Heijenoort

Employment dates:  1891 - 1941 
& painter VK   = A.J. van Kampenhout
Employment dates:  1892 - 1942

Diam.:  18,3 cm.  (7,2 inches.)        
Weight: 290 grams.