Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Hand Painted Farming Plate Haymaking. Woeker met U Tijd - 1930

The center of the tin glazed earthenware farming plate decorated in blue with two men with hay on the field. In the rim with stylized motifs and the text:
WOEKER MET U TIJD. *  1930 * (Be rampant with your time.)
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL  DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND & AZ = 1930
Two painters worked on this plate:
Painter’s initials: VB  = Willem Alexander Karel Hendrik Frederik van Baarsel.     
Employment dates: June 30th 1893 - 1944 or 1945.
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 -73. Only 355 plates were produced.      

Diam.: 24,8 cm. (9,8 inches.)
Weight: 583 grams.