Antiek De Porceleyne Fles Herdenkingsbord. Hugo de Groot 1625 *De Jure Belli ac Pacis* Jus Gentium* 1925

HUGO GROTIUS and under:  1625 * De Jure Belli ac Pacis * Jus Gentium * 1925

Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:

DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT

DELFT - HOLLAND &  AU = 1925

Two painters worked on this plate: 

Painter: JL = Jan Willem Lispet
Employment dates: Aug. 9th 1887 - 1938

Painter: AG  = Andreas Petrus Guerain.
Employment dates: Jun. 6th 1887 - 1938

Literature:  

This plate is shown in  DELFTWARE - History of a national product De Porceleyne Fles . Page 157  fig. 3 =  Number 228 
Two of his books have had a lasting impact in the field:
 De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace) and the 
Mare Liberum (The Free Seas) 
for which Grotius has been called the "father of international law".