Large Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Christmas Plate - 1984

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue in the center with a church in a village in the winter with a docking a boat in the front In the bottom the text KERSTMIS 1984 (Christmas.) The rim with stylized floral and geo-metric motifs.
Design by Johannes Th, Dessens.
Employment dates 1939 - 1986
(This is his last Christmas plate he designed for the Christmas series),
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES  - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  - DD  = 1984.
Painter’s initals: VDL = H. van de Linden
Employment dates:  1955 - 2004

Diam.:  25,3 cm.  (10 inches.)     
Weight: 774 grams.