Vintage Dutch Blue & White Delft Commemorative Plate. Queen Wilhelmina 50th Birthday - 1930

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with in the center flowers with the text:

Een ieder roeme, Welgezind   

Den onverbreekb’ren band  

Die Neerland en Oranje bindt        

Vorstin en Vaderland.  (Everyone fame ,well disposed - The unbreakable connection - who connects The Netherlands and Orange - Queen and fatherland.)

The rim with stylized leaves with theApples of Orange. (Orange = Royal family.) and KONINGIN WILHELMINA 1880 * 31 AUG s* 1880 - 1930 for Queen Wilhelmina commemorating her 50th birthday.
Design by: Pieter Senf.

Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:

DE PORCELEYNE FLES  -  ROYAL  DELFT

DELFT - HOLLAND & BA  = 1931

Painter’s initials: PF = Pieter Cornelis Marinus de Fouw

Employment date: 15 March 1883 - 1931

Diam.:  25 cm. (9,9 inches.) 

Weight: 681 grams.