Dutch Royal Delft Polychrome Cloisonné War Tile. Inundation 1945.

The rectangular Delft memorial cloisonné tile decorated in colours with a Dutch landscape with houses and trees under water and a rising sun with the standing Dutch Lion with sword and a bundle of arrows, as symbol for the Dutch States, in his other hand. Under the Dutch text:

5 MEI * NEDERLAND  ZAL HERRIJZEN. (The Netherlands will revive,) Marked on the back with the impressed factory mark for: 

DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT

DELFT - HOLLAND  -  ANNO  1945 

Design by:  J.H. Schuilenburg,
Employment dates: 1895 - 1948

14,3 x 19,8 cm. ( 5,7 x 7,8 inches.) 

Weight: 424 grams.