Dutch Blue, White & Orange Royal Delft Commemorative Plate Nationale Herdenking 1813 - 1963

The tin glazed earthenware plate commemorating the 150th anniversary of the independence of the Netherlands after Napoleon Bonaparte. The broad rim plate decorated in shades of blue with the Crowned coat of arms of the Netherlands with the Dutch Lion with the sword in his right hand and in his left hand a bundle of arrows for the 11 States of the Netherlands, surrounded by two
branches with the orange-coloured apples of Orange surrounded with the text:
NATIONALE HERDENKING 1813 – 1963
TERUGBLIKKEN en VOORUITZIEN
National Commemoration 1813 -1963 Looking back and looking ahead (23 November – 2 December in Den Haag, o.a nabootsing landing Prins Willem)
On the broad rim rotating flowering branches with the orange-coloured Apples of Orange
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES  -  ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  &  CH =  1963.
Painter’s initials: DVR  =  D. Vrijland 
Employment dates: 1951 - 1994
Literature:

This item is only mentioned in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft Page 130 
in dated commemorative plates.

Diam.:    25,5 cm.  (10 inches.)  

Weight: 652 grams.