Small Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Plate - Mother's Day Folkdress MARKEN - May 13th 1973

The tin glazed earthenware Mother’s Day plate decorated in shades of blue with mother and daughter in a Marken Folklore Dress playing with a ball. Surrounded in the rim by the text:
M O E D E R D A G  11 MEI 1975
with flowers between the letters.   Mother’s Day May 13th, 1973.
From the serie: Klederdracht: vaderdag / moederdag 1972 until 1976 10 plates.
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES  -  ROYAL  DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND & CR   =  1972
HOLLAND  -  MARKEN.       355  / 3000
Painter’s initials: TVD  =  A. van Donk
Employment dates:  1965 - 1972.

Diam.:  18,2 cm.  (7,2 inches.)
Weight: 277 grams.