Large Dutch Blue, White & Orange Royal Delft Commemorative Plate. 
Birth Princess Beatrix 1938

The tin glazed rimmed earthenware plate commemorating the birth of (crown) Princess Beatrix, the first daughter of the crown princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard. Decorated in shades of blue with in a roundel a Dutch landscape with flagged buildings and a sailing vessel and in the front the tree of Orange with an orange-coloured Orange, as symbol for the Royal Family (Princess of Orange) and
31 JANUARY 1938
Surrounded with the text:  PRINSES BEATRIX – HEEL NE^ERLAND JUICHT, HOEZEE!  (Whole Netherlands rejoices, Hurrah)
The rim decorated with floral swags.
Design by Leon Senf
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES   -   ROYAL  DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  & BH = 1938
Two painter worked on this plate.
Painter’s initials: AB =  Not identified
Employment dates:          
and painter VK  = Antonius Johannes van Kampenhout
Employment dates:  1892 – 1942
Literature:   
This item is shown in - Royal Delft a guide to the Porceleyne Fles by Rick Erickson Page 129 - Fig.11-11. 

Diam.:  29 cm.  (11,4 inches.)
Weight: 768 Grams.