De Porceleyne Fles Herdenkingsbord Eerste Intercontinentiale KLM Vlucht Batavia 1924 Fokker H - NACC

The tin glazed earthenware plate commemorating Van der Hoop’s flight from Holland to the Dutch Indies. Decorated in shades of blue with in the center the flying Fokker airplane H - NACC and in the top a Dutch East Indian Sailing Vessel with the date 1597 and under a steamship with the date 1871. The rim with floral swags and under the text:
Och zeil! Och Stoom ! Kiest Vrij Uw Sop,
Ik zoek het Hoopvol Hooger op.    1924
(Oh sail, Oh steam, Choose free your “sop”. I will search it higher up)
1597 November = Return of the crew of the late Willem Barentz. from Nova Zembla where they stayed over winter after searching a ship route to the Far East on the north of Russia.
1871 = Nova Zembla  Behouden Huis of the crew of W. Barentz in 1596 was found. (& the start of a regular connection with steam ships to Batavia = Djakarta)
1924 October 1th = First intercontinental flight From Amsterdam to Batavia in the Dutch Indies. (Djakarta) with a Fokker F7. The crew flew only at daytime and over land and it was a single journey. They arrived the 24th of November in 1924, so a journey of 55 days.
The airplane and crew returned by boat from Batavia to Amsterdam.
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES   -   ROYAL DELFT
        DELFT  -  HOLLAND  &  AU = 1925
Two painters worked on this plate:
Painter’s initials:  CK = Georg Conrad Kunz
Employment dates: Sept. 7th, 1891 - 1940
& painter VK = Antonius Johannes van Kampenhout
Employment dates: 1892 - 1942
Literature:
This item is shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft Page 133 - Fig.11-25 (but 22,5 cm.) 
Only 2000 plates were produced.

Diam.:  25,2 cm.  (9,9 inches.)     
Weight: 486 grams