Large Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Hand Painted Christmas Plate - KERSTMIS 1927

The large tin glazed earthenware Christmas plate decorated in shades of blue in the center with an incoming Dutch brown sailing vessel into the snowy harbor and pulling down the sails. In the top left the Christmas Star. In the distance a windmill and some farm buildings. In the bottom the text Kerstmis 1927 (Christmas.). On the rim holly leaves and berries.
Design by Leon Senf.

Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES   -   ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND    -   ANNO 1927 
Painter’s initials: JL = Jan Willem Lispet.
Employment dates:  August 9th, 1887 - 1938
Painter’s initials: JM =Johannes Casper Wilhelm Marijnissen
Employment dates:  1920 - 1958

Diam.:  25,3 cm.  (10 inches.)     
Weight: 578 grams.