The center of the tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in blue with a man and a woman threshing grain in the barn. In the rim with stylized motifs and the text:
* VOLHARD TOT HET EINDE * & under *1931* (Work hard until the end.)
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND & BA = 1931
Two painters worked on this plate:
Painter’s initials: VA = Thomas van Arum
Employment dates: 31 Mar. 1890 - 1945
Painter AG = Andreas Petrus Guerrain
Employment dates:: June 6th, 1887 - 1938
Literature:
This item is shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft Page 144 - Fig. 11 -74
Only 315 plates were produced.
Diam.: 25,4 cm. (9,8 inches.)
Weight: 636 grams.