Rare Antique Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Plaque . The Lute Player after Frans Hals - 1888

The totally tin glazed earthenware rectangular plaque decorated in shades of blue with a man playing the lute.
Under right: naar F. Hals
De Luitspeler (Lute Player) 1623 /. 1624, nowadays Musée du Louvre Paris.
Frans Hals: Antwerpen 1582/83 - Haarlem August 26th 1666, one of the three best painters of the Dutch School, Rembrandt & Vermeer.
Signed on the back in blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES  -  ROYAL DELFT
DELFT  - HOLLAND &  J = 1888
Two painters worked on this plate
Painter’s initials: JF  = Jacobus Fröhlich Sr
Employment dates: 1888 - 1933

Height: 15,5 x 15,5 cm. (6,1 x 6,1 inches.)
Thick: 0,1 cm. (0,4 inches.)
With wooden frame
23 cm x 23 cm. (9,1 x 9,1 inches.)              
Weight: 760 Grams .