Large Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Christmas Plate Hoorn. KERSTMIS 1964

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue in the center with the Hoofd Toren on the harbour, the principial town gate of Hoorn, In the bottom the text Kerstmis 1964 (Christmas.) The rim with stylized flowers and pine green.
Design by Johannes Th. Dessens.
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES  -  ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND   - CI  =  1964
Painter’s initials: KB =  C.J. (Kees) Bak
Employment dates: 1934 - 1981

Diam.:  25 cm.  (9,9 inches.)       
Weight: 608 grams.