Large Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Hand Painted Christmas Plate - 1972 Edam Speeltoren Kleine Kerk

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue in the center with the tower of  De Kleine or Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk in Edam in the winter. In the bottom the text Kerstmis 1972 (Christmas.). The rim with stylized holly and flowers.
Design by M. de Bruijn.
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  -  CR  = 1972
                        236 / 1500
Painter’s initials: VDL = H. van de Linden
Employment dates: 1955 - 2004

Diam.:  25,2 cm.  (10 inches.)
Weight: 580 grams.