Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Hand Painted Commemorative Plate - 1934. In Memoriam Queen Emma

The tin glazed earthenware plate commemorating the dead of Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Former Queen of the Netherlands and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg and later regent of her daughter Wilhelmina, during the latter’s minority from 1890 - 1918. Decorated in shades of blue within the center a pillar with a crowned E on the base and the pillar covered in a black mourning cloth, surrounded with two feather and
20  MAART 1934
.  On the rim surrounded with the text:  MIJN SCHILD EN MIJN BETROUWEN - ZIJT GIJ, O GOD, MIJN HEER (My shield and my trust, are You, O God, my Lord.)
Designed by Piet Senf

Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES  -  ROYAL DELFT
DELFT  -  HOLLAND  &  BD = 1934
Painter’s initials: JM = J. Marijnissen.
Employment dates: 1920-1958. Painter & Designer
Literature:
This item is shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft Page 129 - Fig.11-10

Diam.: 25,1 cm.  (9,9 inches.)            
Weight:  456 grams.