The tin glazed earthenware charger decorated totally in shades of blue with a portrait of Titus, the fourth and only son of Rembrandt van Rijn and Saskia van Uylenburgh after a painting by Rembrandt. (Anno 1653 . Born 1641 – 1668.)
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND & BM / N = 1943 -1944
Painter’s initials: JD = Johannes Th. Dessens
Employment dates: 1939 - 1983
Diameter: 34,7 cm. (13,7 inches.)
Weight: 1.414 grams.