Large Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Hand Painted Christmas Plate - KERSTMIS 1928.

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue in the center with a lighthouse with his guiding light in the eve next to the light of the Christmas Star. The star-shaped border with stylized leaves and berries framing the decoration on the plate. In the bottom the text Kerstmis 1928 (Christmas.)
Design by Piet Senf.
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES  -  ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  -  AY = 1929.
Two painters worked on this painting on clay:
Painter’s initials: VB  =  Willem Alexander Karel Hendrik Frederik van Baarsel.                                
Employment dates: June 30th 1893 - 1948.
Painter’s initials: AG  = Andreas Petrus Guerrrain
Employment years: 1887-1938.

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