Dutch Royal Delft Polychrome Royal Family Cloisonné Tile. Birth 
Princess Margriet - 1943

The rectangular Delft memorial majolica cloisonné tile decorated in colours with the Dutch Royal Crown above the Family Coat of Arms between two anchors and surrounded with the text:
HET PETEKIND DER NED. KOOPVAARDIJ.
(The goddaughter of the Dutch merchant navy.)
Under the Dutch text in a banderol:
19 JAN * MARGRIET * 1943 
(The mother Crown Princess Juliana stayed in Canada during World War 2, so the the princess was born in Ottawa.) Marked on the back with the impressed factory mark for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND - CIRCA  1945/47
Design: H.J. Tieman.

Employment dates 1938 - 1982

20 x 14,2 cm. (7,9 x 5,6 inches.)      
Weight: 474 grams.