Large Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Christmas Plate. KERSTMIS - 1983

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue in the center with some houses and a church in a village in the winter with a man docking a Dutch brown sailing vessel. The wife feeding the chickens
In the bottom the text Kerstmis 1983 (Christmas.) The rim with stylized holly and berries.
Design by Johannes Th, Dessens.
Employment dates 1939 - 1986
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES   -   ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  -  DC  = 1983.
Design: J.TH, DESSENS.  27 / 500
Painter’s initials: JoopdeWit  = Joop de Wit
Employment years: 1967 - 2017

Diam.:  25,2 cm. (10 inches.)      
Weight: 616 grams.