Frederick Alfred Rhead

Frederick Alfred Rhead

Frederick Alfred Rhead (1856-1933) was a potter working in North Staffordshire. He is not to be confused with his son Frederick Hurten Rhead (1880-1942) who was also a potter, and who worked mainly in the USA.

Frederick Alfred Rhead was apprenticed at Mintons Ltd where he learnt the art of pate-sur-pate ceramic decoration from Marc-Louis Solon, the leading exponent of this technique. He continued to employ "pate-sur-pate" after leaving Minton. He joined Wedgwood in the 1870s and went on to work at a number of potteries including a failed venture of his own. His most famous piece of ceramics is the "Gladstone Vase" which was presented to Gladstone by the Liberals of Burslem in 1888. The vase has been loaned to the Gladstone Pottery Museum.

Rhead was also a graphic designer. He collaborated with his brothers Louis Rhead and George Woolliscroft Rhead Jr on book illustration projects.

His other children included the pottery designer Charlotte Rhead.


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