Rare Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Commemorative Plate - Hungarian Uprising 1956.

The very rare tin glazed earthenware plate marking the raid of the Russians in Hungary after the Hungarian uprising. Decorated in shades of blue with a flowering tree surrounded with attacking serpents. (Snakes attack the tree of Life). On the rim the text:
HET KWAAD OVERHEERST VAAK – DOCH OVERWINT NIMMER & 1956. and floral swags.  (Evil often predominates – but never conquers)
Designed by L. van Stein

Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES  -  ROYAL  DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  &  CB = 1957
Painter’s initials: MvA = M.H. van Aalst,
Employment dates: 1941 - 1983
Literature:
Not mentioned in Rick Erickson Royal Delft.

Diam.:  18,6 cm.  (7,3 inches.)             
Weight: 249 grams