The center of the tin glazed earthenware farming plate decorated in blue with two men with hay on the field. In the rim with stylized motifs and the text:
WOEKER MET U TIJD. * 1930 * (Be rampant with your time.)
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND & AZ = 1930
Two painters worked on this plate:
Painter’s initials: VL = Johannes (Jan) van Lijnschooten.
Employment dates: Sept 16th 1889 - 1935.
Painter’s initials: AG = Andreas Petrus Guerrain
Employment dates: June 6th 1887 - 1938
Literature:
This item is shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft Page 144 - Fig. 11 -73. Only 355 plates were produced.
Diam.: 25 cm. (9,9 inches.)
Weight: 614 grams.