Large Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Hand Painted Christmas Plate - Kerstmis 1941

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue in the center with an interior scene of a living room with an old, beamed ceiling. A lantern is hanging, the big pot with food is hanging above the fire and in the corner the Christmas tree with burning candles, with the second Christmas during the German occupation in the second world war.
In the bottom the text Kerstmis 1941 (Christmas.)
The rim with stylized flowers and pine green.
Design by Johannes Senf.
This is his last Christmas plate in the war time and after the war they started with the Christmas cloisonné tiles. This next Royal Delf Christmas plate is in 1955.
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES   -   ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  &   BL = 1942
Two painters worked on this plate.
Painter’s initials: VA =  D.J. van Arum
Employment dates: 1938 - 1947
Painter’s initials: CS  = Casper Schilperoort 
Employment dates: 15 Oct. 1894 - 1950

Diam.:  25 cm.  (9,9 inches.)
Weight: 526 grams.