Large Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Christmas Plate - KERSTMIS 1981

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue in the center with a city street with people in the snow. In the rim the text KERSTMIS 1981 (Christmas.) The rim with stylized holly and berry’s.
Design by Johannes Th. Dessens.
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES  -  ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  -   DA  = 1981
DESIGN – J.TH Dessens.    74 / 500
Painter’s initals: JBO  =  J. Boot
Employment dates: 1950 – 1994.
Only 500 large plates were made

Diam.:  25,4 cm.  (10 inches.)
Weight: 556 grams.