The center of the tin glazed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with a Dutch brown sailing vessel in wavy water. The rim with the text:
HOUDT MOED ! ONDANKS HET DUISTERE VERSCHIET, VERTWIJFEL NIET.
(Keep Heart ! Thankless the gloomy distance, despair not.)
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND & BA = 1931
Painter’s initials: VL = Jan van Lijnschooten
Employment dates: 16 Sept. 1889 - 1935.
Literature:
Some crisis plates are shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft Page 143 
This plate is only mentioned on page 142.
Diam.: 18,2 cm. (7,2 inches.)
Weight: 305 grams