The tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with a windmill (Paltrok Wip-mill) on a waterfront in a Dutch landscape. The rim decorated with stylized floral motifs.
Signed on the bottom in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND & W = 1901
Two painters worked on this plate:
Painter’s initials: VB = Willem van Baarsel.
Employment dates: 1893 - 1948.
Painter: PD = Petrus Leonardus Dijkman
Employment dates: 11 April 1882 - 1922
Impressed mark: Joost Thooft & La Bouchere in a circle.
Diam.: 22 cm. (8,7 inches.)
Weight: 421 grams.