Frederick Hürten Rhead (1880–1942)

Frederick Hürten Rhead, born in England, was the son of Frederick Alfred Rhead (1856–1933), who was well known in the ceramics industry. He worked with his father before moving to the United States in 1902. In America Rhead worked at the Vance/Avon Faience Pottery (1902–1903), Weller Pottery (1904), Roseville Pottery (1904–1908), Jervis Pottery (1908–1909), University […]

Rhead Family— Artists and Potters

Rhead came from a British family of distinguished artists and potters. Especially well known as potters in England were his father; his uncles, George Woolliscroft Rhead (1854–1920) and Louis John Rhead (1858–1926); and his sister Charlotte Rhead (1889–1947). His brother Harry Rhead (1881–1950) followed Frederick to America, and from 1908 to 1920 Harry was art […]

Jacques Sicard (1865-1923)

Jacques Sicard worked at Clement Massier Pottery in Golfe Juan near Cannes, France, for a number of years before he immigrated to the United States in 1901. He soon found a job at Weller Pottery in Zanesville, Ohio, and he developed the metallic luster used on pieces known as Sicardo ware. Sicardo ware was usually […]

John Lessell (1871–1926)

John Lessell (sometimes spelled Lassell) moved to the United States from Mettlach, Germany. He worked for at least eight American potteries from 1888 to 1926 and developed several important glazes and lines of pottery. An iridescent gold luster glaze and other metallic glazes are the best known. While Lessell was at the Owen China Company […]