Frederick Hurten Rhead
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Frederick Hurten Rhead was a ceramicist and a major figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. A native of England, he worked as a potter in the United States for most of his career. In addition to teach
A Rhead vase. A similar vase sold for $516,000 on 10 March 2007 at the Rago Arts and Auction Center, a record amount for a piece of American art pottery.
Frederick Hurten Rhead (at far left), Taxile Doat (far right), and others at the Art Academy of People's University (now the Lewis Center) in University City, Missouri, celebrating its first high-firing kiln in April 1910.
Charlotte Rhead
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Charlotte Rhead was an English ceramics designer active in the 1920s and the 1930s in the Potteries area of Staffordshire.
Frederick Hurten Rhead
…business of his own which failed. Young Frederick's mother Adolphine (née Hurten) also came from an artistic family. Frederick Hurten's siblings included Charlotte Rhead, a talented designer who remained in England; and Harry Rhead, who followed his brother to work in the United States. Rhead was educated in the Potteries…
A plate by Charlotte Rhead.
Charlotte Rhead's potter's mark.