The tin glazed rimmed earthenware plate decorated in shades of blue with in the center the mark of the chocolate company Droste in a cartouche with:
DROSTE N.V. 1890 - 1940
surrounded with rotating stylized flowers
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND ANNO 1940
Painter’s initials: VL = Theodorus Antonius Bernardus van Lingen.
Employment dates: 28 March 1893 -1945
and the iround ipressed mark:
DROSTE CACAO EN CHOCOLADE FABRIEKEN N.V.
HAARLEM - HOLLAND
Diam.: 18,1 cm. (7,1 inches.)
Weight: 345 grams.