Large Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Hand Painted Christmas Plate - KERSTMIS 1939.

The large tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue in the center with an interior with a burning candle in a candleholder on a self above an arched door. The door open showing a street view with snow and a standing shovel in the snow. No Christmas star or light is showing, the second world war started already in other countries in Europe. In the top Kerstmis (Christmas.)  and under 1939. 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  -   BI  = 1939
Two painters worked on this plate.

Painter: VH  =  Gijsbertus van Heijenoort
Employment dates:  1891 - 1940.
Painter’s initials:  CS  =  Casper Schilperoort 
Employment dates: 15 Oct. 1894 - 1950

Diam.:   25 cm.  (9,9 inches.)      
Weight: 396 grams.