Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Farming Plate – Treshing Grain. Volhard tot het Einde - 1931

The center of the tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in blue with a man and a woman threshing grain in the barn. In the rim with stylized motifs and the text:
* VOLHARD TOT HET EINDE * & under *1931* (Work hard until the end.)
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES  -  ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  &  BA = 1931
Two painters worked on this plate:
Painter’s initials: VL = Johannes (Jan) van Lijnschooten
Employment dates: 16 Sept 1889 - 1935
Painter’s initials: AG =  Andreas Petrus Guerrain
Employment dates:: June 6th, 1887 - 1938      
Literature:
This item is shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft   Page 144 - Fig. 11 -74
Only 315 plates were produced.      

Diam.:  24,8 cm.  (9,8 inches.)         
Weight: 646 grams.