Large Farming Plate 1927 Ploughman - In Den Aanvang Is De Daad. Royal Delft Blue.

The center of the tin glazed earthenware large farming plate decorated in shades of blue with two horses within his front a man with a plow in a Dutch farming landscape surrounded with the text:
IN DEN AANVANG IS DE DAAD
(In the beginning is the deed / doing.)
The rim decorated with stylized flowers and motifs. Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  &  AW  = 1927
Two painters worked on this painting on clay.
Painter: AG  =   Andreas Petrus Guerrain
Employment dates: June 6th, 1887 – 1938
Painter: VH  =   Gijsbertus van Heijenoort
Employment dates: 1891 - 1940  

Designed by Leon Senf
Literature:
Farming plates are mentioned in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft Page 143 and the small farming plates are shown on page 144.

Diam.:   34 cm.  (13,4 inches.)     
Weight: 1.293 grams.