Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Hand Painted Crisis Plate - 1937. SOLD

The center of the tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with a swimming swan cleaning his feathers under tree branches a in a Dutch landscape. The rim decorated under with two stylized flowers and in the top the text:
NU WEER MET MOED, DE TOEKOMST TEGEMOET & below 1937.
(Go to the future with fresh courage) 
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND &  BG = 1937              
Painter’s initials: CK = Georg Conrad Kunz
Employment dates: Sept. 7th, 1891 - 1940
Literature:
This crisis plate is shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft Page 143 Fig. 11-69. 
Original price $ 150,00

Diam.:  18,2 cm.  (7,2 inches.)
Weight: 223 grams