Rare Antique Blue & White Royal Delft Professional Plate. The Doctor - Circa 1920

The tin glazed earthenware “Professional” plate decorated in shades of blue with a man and a sitting doctor in a room & naar Jan Luiken surrounded by the text:

De Dokter  De zieken die voor mij verschijnen, Geneeze ik door de medesijnen. (The Doctor The  sick persons  who come into my sight, I  cure with medicines.) and a rim with stylized flowers. After an engraving by Jan & Kasper Luyken  from: Spiegel van ’t menschelijk bedryf.  Honderd verscheiden Ambachten - Amsterdam Anno 1767.

Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:

DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT

DELFT - HOLLAND -  Circa 1920 

Panter: VP = Petrus Franciscus Vreeswijk

Employment dates: Oct. 19th 1885 - 1934

The other plates were all marked  AO = 1919

Literature: 

This item is shown in - Royal Delft a guide to the Porceleyne Fles by Rick Erickson Page 145 - Fig. 11-78