De Porceleyne Fles Blauw Wit Delfts Crisis / Oorlogs Bordje - Mijn Schild en de Betrouwen - 1939

The center of the tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in blue with a Dutch brown sailing vessel in stormy water on sea. In the cloud the Almighty’s Eye & 1939. In the rim two leaves with the Apples of Orange and the text:
MIJN SCHILD EN DE BETROUWEN
ZIJT GIJ, O GOD MIJN HEER.
My schield and the trust - Are You O God my Lord. (Start 2th World.War.) (Text from the sixth couplet of “Het Wilhemus”, the national hymn.)
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  &   BI = 1939              
Two painters worked on this piece:
Painter’s intials:VA  = Thomas van Arum
Employment dates March 31 1890 – 1945                
& VK  = Antonius Joh. van Kampenhout
Employment dates: 1892 – 1942
Literature:
Siumular crisis plates are shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft Page 142 - 143. 

Diam.:  18,2 cm.  (7.2 inches.)
Weight: 214 grams