Large Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Hand Painted Christmas Plate - KERSTMIS 1940.

The large tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue in the center with an interior with the Christmas tree with small burning candles standing on a tiled floor. On top of the Christmas tree the shining Christmas Star. The is year the door is closed, because outside is the occupation by the Germans in the first Dutch Second World war year in the Netherlands
Under in the rim KERSTMIS 1940 (Christmas.) between a decoration of only pine branches.
Design by Piet Senf.
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES  -  ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  -  ANNO  1940
Two painters worked on this plate.

Painter’s initials: VB  =  Willem Alexander Karel Hendrik Frederik van Baarsel.
Employment dates:  June 30th 1893 - 1948.
Painter: VK   Antonius Johannes van Kampenhout
Employment dates:         1892 - 1942

Diam.:   24,8 cm.  (9,8 inches.)
Weight: 475 grams.