Large flow blue ironstone plate. White body with blue designs and excess glaze. Plant design around rim. Tree/pagoda scene on plate face. Rim not rounded - made of many slightly curved edges. On bottom, ribbon mark with the words 'Ironstone', 'Chapoo', a
[description appears incomplete. Website potteries.org identifies Chapoo as a pattern used by John Wedg Wood. The name comes from the battle of Cahpu, China, 1842.---mta]
Manufacturer of earthenware at Hadderidge Bank, Burslem and then at Woodland Street, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent
John Wood either already had or, more probably adopted, a middle name 'Wedg' - this rather conveniently caused his marks to been mistaken for the more famous Josiah Wedgwood
One trade directory (1841 Pigot) lists his second name as 'Wedge' but all others correctly give 'Wedg'. John Wedg Wood died, age 43, in May 1857.
