Pottery Ladies. Miss Cooper, Miss Cliff, Miss Rhead and all the forgotten girls...... (Charlotte Rhead) - ACE154.3

Paintress. Photograph of Charlotte Rhead. Frank Capey talking about what Charlotte Rhead was like. Another photograph of her. Vase designed and painted by Frederick Rhead, Charlotte’s father, around 1895: VO Joan Jackson. Jackson repeating a description by someone who remembered the factory. Demonstrations of the tube-lining technique. Plate decorated by tube-lining. Woman says it’s an extremely skilled trade. Elliot with tube-lined plate, the technique being found to be very suitable for Art Nouveau designs. Rhead was a particularly skilful exponent of the process. Capey believes Charlotte Rhead was the leading tube-liner of her day. Woman talks about Rhead’s family background, with her mother’s ancesters coming from France. Joan Jackson explains that Rhead’s French grandfather has worked at Sevres, and ended up at Minton’s. Photograph of family with mother, Charlotte, her sister, and grandmother. Another photograph of Charlotte with two of her sisters. Jackson explains how she was able to visit the room at Woods in which Charlotte has worked as art director, shortly before it was demolished, and collected up the papers they found there. Some of the papers have been authenticated as Rhead’s designs.