Large Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Hand Painted Christmas Plate - KERSTMIS 1958.

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue in the center with a wintry landscape with a village with a church tower lightened by 
the Christmas Star in the sky. In the bottom the text Kerstmis 1959 (Christmas.) The rim with stylized holly, flowers and red berries.
Design by Kees Bak
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES   -   ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  -  CA = 1956 
Painter’s initials: DoJ =  D. de Jong 
Employment dates: 1946 - 1969

Diam.:  26 cm.  (10,2 inches.)     
Weight: 521 grams.