Category: Famous Potters

Wedgwood William Greatbatch (1735 – 1813) It is generally claimed that William Greatbatch was apprenticed to Thomas Whieldon and first met Josiah Wedgwood I at Fenton, but there is …

Mug by Frederick Alfred Rhead with illustration by Louis Rhead Several generations of the Rhead family used their artistic talents in the pottery industry, acting as designers to important …

Clarice Cliff 1899-1972 Clarice Cliff Clarice Cliff was born on 20 January 1899 in Meir Street, Tunstall. Tunstall is the most northerly of the six Potteries towns of Staffordshire, in …

Charlotte Rhead Charlotte Antoinette Adolphine Rhead was born into a talented Potteries’ family on 19 October 1885 at 12 Newport Street, Burslem, one of the six towns which are …

Several generations of the Rhead family were designers and art directors to important potteries in Stoke-on-Trent and in the United States of America. Frederick Hurten Rhead left for America …

Josiah Wedgwood was born in 1730 and began his career in the potteries at the age of 14 when he was apprenticed to his brother. In 1752 he set …

The Life of Clarice Cliff Part 1 In 1930, when Clarice Cliff became Art Director of Newport Pottery, she achieved the distinction of being the first woman to reach …

Clarice Cliff No one could have predicted Clarice Cliff’s rise to become Art Director of Newport Pottery. Her fellow-workers recall that while Clarice was friendly, rather than socializing she …