Antique Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Plate with Sailing Vessels on the Beach afer H.W. Mesdag - 1896

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue on the whole plate with Dutch Brown sailing vessels, so called Bomschuiten on the beach at Scheveningen (The Haque) after a painting from H.W. Mesdag. Under left: Naar H.W. Mesdag. (Hendrik Willem Mesdag 1831- 1915.)
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL  DELFT 
DELFT - HOLLAND  &  R = 1896
Painter: VB  =  Willem Frederik van Baarsel
Employment dates: 1893 - 1944 or 1945.
Impressed mark: Joost Thooft & La Bouchere in a circle

Diameter:  23 cm. (9,1 inches.)        
Weight:  554 grams.