DutchBlue & White Royal Delft Rimmed Plate with 50 Years Droste NV Chocolates 1893 - 1940

The tin glazed rimmed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with in the center the mark of the chocolate company Droste in a cartouche with:
DROSTE N.V. 1890 - 1940
surrounded with rotating stylized flowers
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES   -  ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  ANNO 1940
Painter’s initials: VL = Theodorus Antonius Bernardus van Lingen.
Employment dates: 28 March 1893 -1945
and the iround ipressed mark:
DROSTE CACAO EN CHOCOLADE FABRIEKEN N.V.
HAARLEM - HOLLAND

Diam.:  18,1 cm.   (7,1 inches.)

Weight: 345 grams.