RARE Dutch Royal Delft Cloisonné War Tile 1946. HOLLAND ARISES TO GREATER THINGS English Text. SOLD

The rectangular Delft majolica cloisonné tile decorated in colours with an Amsterdam canal with the tower of the Wester-church and the skyline of New York with a Skymaster Douglas C 54a, the military version of the DC 4. of Royal Dutch Airlines (K.L.M.) In the bottom a ribbon with the ENGLISH   text:
HOLLAND ARISES TO GREATER THINGS
K.L.M. SPREADS HER WIDER WINGS
(NB. On the Dutch text tiles = NEDERLAND HERRIJST - KLM  BEWIJST – 1946 = Holland Revises, KLM demonstrates.)
Marked on the back with the impressed factory mark for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES  -  ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND - ANNO  1946
Design: H.J. Tieman,
Employment dates 1938 - 1982.

20 x 14,5 cm. (7,9 x 5,7 inches.)

Weight: 422 grams