Large Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Christmas Plate. Rhoon Windmill The Deer. KERSTMIS 1965

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue in the center with the corn-windmill Het Hert (The Deer) in Rhoon near Rotterdam in the winter. (Build in 1849. In 1971 demolished.) In the bottom the text Kerstmis 1965 (Christmas.) The rim with stylized holly leaves and flowers.
Design by Marcelius de Bruijn.
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES  - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  -  CJ  = 1965.
Painter’s initials: JTH  = J.H ten Hacken
Employment dates: 1940 - 1988

Diam.:  25 cm.  (9,9 inches.)       
Weight: 511 grams.