Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Hand Painted Plate with a Sailing Boat 1653 - 1953

The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with Dutch brown sailing vessels in a Dutch landscape with a windmill. The rim decorated with rotating floral swags.
Signed on the bottom in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES  -  ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND & 1653 - 1953.
For the 300 years jubilee of Royal Delft in 1953.
Painter’s initials:  HP = H.E.  Planken
Employment dates: 1941 - 1990

Diameter:  22,9 cm. (9,3 inches.)
Weight: 415 grams.