John Wedg Wood Ironstone in Chapoo pattern. White earthenware with cobalt blue transferware. Plant design on rim. Tree/pagoda scene on plate face. Rim has scalloped edges.
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.
John Wedg Wood Ironstone in Chapoo pattern. White earthenware with cobalt blue transferware. Plant design on rim. Tree/pagoda scene on plate face. Rim has scalloped edges.
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.
John Wedg Wood Ironstone in Chapoo pattern. White earthenware with cobalt blue transferware. Plant design on rim. Tree/pagoda scene on plate face. Rim has scalloped edges.
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.
John Wedg Wood Ironstone in Chapoo pattern. White earthenware with cobalt blue transferware. Plant design on rim. Tree/pagoda scene on plate face. Rim has scalloped edges.
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.
John Wedg Wood Ironstone in Chapoo pattern. White earthenware with cobalt blue transferware. Plant design on rim. Tree/pagoda scene on plate face. Rim has scalloped edges.
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.
John Wedg Wood Ironstone in Chapoo pattern. White earthenware with cobalt blue transferware. Plant design on rim. Tree/pagoda scene on plate face. Rim has scalloped edges.
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.
Handpainted dish of Chinese export porcelain. Center design of six Chinese ladies outside home playing board game. Four sections of rim repeat the same stylized design of fish, flowers, scrolled documents, etc.
Provenance
Dish owned by Harriet Lane Johnston, then descent within family to donor.
One of a set of five handpainted Chinese export porcelain plates. Gold edge. Center medallion of man walking on water while carrying a woman (?). Surrounding decoration has four medallions bordered with scrolling and surrounded by flowers. Within two medallions is a scene of three people sitting on floor at a table. Remaining two designs have floral designs. Glazed except for foot ring.
Provenance
Dish owned by Harriet Lane Johnston, then descent within family to donor.
One of a set of five handpainted Chinese export porcelain plates. Gold edge. Center medallion of man walking on water while carrying a woman (?). Surrounding decoration has four medallions bordered with scrolling and surrounded by flowers. Within two medallions is a scene of three people sitting on floor at a table. Remaining two designs have floral designs. Glazed except for foot ring.
Provenance
Dish owned by Harriet Lane Johnston, then descent within family to donor.
One of a set of five handpainted Chinese export porcelain plates. Gold edge. Center medallion of man walking on water while carrying a woman (?). Surrounding decoration has four medallions bordered with scrolling and surrounded by flowers. Within two medallions is a scene of three people sitting on floor at a table. Remaining two designs have floral designs. Glazed except for foot ring.
Provenance
Dish owned by Harriet Lane Johnston, then descent within family to donor.
One of a set of five handpainted Chinese export porcelain plates. Gold edge. Center medallion of man walking on water while carrying a woman (?). Surrounding decoration has four medallions bordered with scrolling and surrounded by flowers. Within two medallions is a scene of three people sitting on floor at a table. Remaining two designs have floral designs. Glazed except for foot ring.
Provenance
Dish owned by Harriet Lane Johnston, then descent within family to donor.
One of a set of five handpainted Chinese export porcelain plates. Gold edge. Center medallion of man walking on water while carrying a woman (?). Surrounding decoration has four medallions bordered with scrolling and surrounded by flowers. Within two medallions is a scene of three people sitting on floor at a table. Remaining two designs have floral designs. Glazed except for foot ring.
Provenance
Dish owned by Harriet Lane Johnston, then descent within family to donor.
One of eleven pieces from James Buchanan's French Parisian Pink dinner service. Designed and decorated by Jean-Pierre Feuillet in Paris at his studio on rue de la Paix no. 20. This dessert dish has a floral hand-painted scene in a natural palette in shades of red, orange, yellow, blue and green within a gilt cavetto below a wide pink band within a gilt edge.
Made by Nast or Darte Freres factory. Jean-Pierre Feuillet, designer.
Provenance
French Ambassador, Louis Adolphe Aimé Fourier, comte de Bacourt
One of twenty Dessert Plates. Pink and white scalloped edge with gold laurel leaf border and wider band of pink bordered with gold; hand-painted face polychrome with fruit or flower; each plate unique. Monogram 'HEJ' in gold within pink border.
One of twenty Dessert Plates. Pink and white scalloped edge with gold laurel leaf border and wider band of pink bordered with gold; hand-painted face polychrome with fruit or flower; each plate unique. Monogram 'HEJ' in gold within pink border.
One of twenty Dessert Plates. Pink and white scalloped edge with gold laurel leaf border and wider band of pink bordered with gold; hand-painted face polychrome with fruit or flower; each plate unique. Monogram 'HEJ' in gold within pink border.
One of twenty Dessert Plates. Pink and white scalloped edge with gold laurel leaf border and wider band of pink bordered with gold; hand-painted face polychrome with fruit or flower; each plate unique. Monogram 'HEJ' in gold within pink border.
One of twenty Dessert Plates. Pink and white scalloped edge with gold laurel leaf border and wider band of pink bordered with gold; hand-painted face polychrome with fruit or flower; each plate unique. Monogram 'HEJ' in gold within pink border.
One of twenty Dessert Plates. Pink and white scalloped edge with gold laurel leaf border and wider band of pink bordered with gold; hand-painted face polychrome with fruit or flower; each plate unique. Monogram 'HEJ' in gold within pink border.
One of twenty Dessert Plates. Pink and white scalloped edge with gold laurel leaf border and wider band of pink bordered with gold; hand-painted face polychrome with fruit or flower; each plate unique. Monogram 'HEJ' in gold within pink border.
