Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Hand Painted Crisis Plate with the Grower in his Greenhouse - 1940

The center of the tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in blue with a man cutting branches in a greenhouse and 1940 surrounded with the text:
DE KWEKER SPREEKT:  “AL. MIJN WERKEN IS OM NIET ALS DE HOPE MIJ ONTVLIEDT.” (The grower says: All my labours will be in vain if I lose my hope.) The rim decorated with stylized motifs.
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  &  BJ  = 1940
Two painters worked on this plate:
Painter’s initials: CK = Georg Conrad Kunz
Employment dates: Sept 7th, 1891 - 1940
Painter’s initials: CF = Casper Schilperoort 
Employment dates: 15 Oct. 1894 - 1950
Literature:
Crisis plates shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft Pages 142 & 143. This plate mentioned on page 142.

Diam.:   25,3 cm.  (10 inches.)     
Weight: 463 grams.