Large Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Hand Painted Christmas Plate - KERSTMIS 1938.

The large tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue in the center with an interior with a gleaming lantern in the room with a built in oven and tiles on the floor and the arched doorway half open looking outside with the shining Christmas Star above a winter landscape. In the top KERSTMIS (Christmas.)  and under 1938. The rim with Christmas roses and pine branches.
Design by Piet Senf.
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES  -  ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  -   BH  = 1938
Two painters worked on this plate.

Painter’s initials: JB = J. Bitter
Employment dates:  1929- 1945
Painter: AG = Andreas Petrus Guerrain.    
Employment dates: June 6th, 1887 – 1938

Diam.:  25,8 cm.  (10,2 inches.)
Weight: 439 grams.