Large Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Christmas Plate - Rhenen Rhine River. KERSTMIS 1979

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue in the center with a farm on the Rhine River overlooking the city Rhenen in the Dutch 
winter. In the rim the text KERSTMIS 1979 (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.   222 / 500
Painter’s initals: HPL  =  H.  Planken
Employment dates: 1941 - 1990

Diam.:  25 cm.  (9,9 inches.)
Weight: 539 grams.