The Pruner - 1924 . Overwint Het Kwade. Antique Dutch Royal Delft Crisis Plate. SOLD

The center of the tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of  blue with a man in a garden landscape pruning a fruit tree. The rim with stylized motifs and the text: Overwint Het Kwade. 1924   (Conquer / rise above evil.) 

Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:

DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT 

DELFT - HOLLAND & AT = 1924 

Painter: VP = Petrus Franciscus Vreeswijk

Employment dates: 19 Oct. 1885 - 1934.

Literature:

This item is shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft   Page 142  - Fig. 11 -65

Only 560  plates were produced.

Diam.:  22,5 cm. (8,9 inches.)