Large Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Christmas Plate. Ice Pleasure - KERSTMIS 1978

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue in the center with a farm on a lake in the Dutch winter. In the rim the text KERSTMIS 1978 (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  -  CX  = 1978
DESIGN – J.TH Dessens. 84 / 1000
Painter’s initals: MWV = M.W. Verdoold.
Employment dates:  1971 - 1988.

Diam.:  25,4 cm.  (10 inches.)
Weight: 565 grams.