Large Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Christmas Plate - KERSTMIS 1980

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue in the center with ic-skaters on a frozen canal in front of some farms in a Dutch winter landscape In the rim the text KERSTMIS 1980.(Christmas.) The rim with stylized holly and berries.
Design by Johannes Th. Dessens.
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES  -  ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  -  CZ  = 1980
DESIGN – J.TH Dessens.   204 / 500
Painter’s initals:  HDJ  =  H. De Jong
Employment dates: 1951 - 1984

Diam.:  25,5 cm.  (10 inches.)
Weight:  grams.