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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains , pages of information and , images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them. Charlotte Rhead October — November was a ceramics designer active in the s and the s in the Potteries area of Staffordshire.

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Charlotte was born into an artistic family. Her brother, Frederick Hurten Rhead, was also a well-known pottery designer. At the beginning of the twentieth century the Rhead family was living in Fenton where Charlotte and her sister Dollie studied at Fenton School of Art. Charlotte started work at Wardle and Co , a pottery in Hanley where her brother Frederick Hurten was art director before emigrating to the USA in Charlotte did not stay at the firm long but it gave her the opportunity to develop her skills as a tubeliner, which would be useful to her in her future career as a designer.

In Charlotte found employment as an enameller at Keeling and Co of Burslem. She was next employed as a designer at a tile-maker, T. In Charlotte's father was appointed art director of Wood and Sons , a firm which operated several potteries.

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Charlotte joined him there, taking charge of the tubeliners, and later working as a designer. Charlotte is perhaps best known for her association with Burgess and Leigh of Middleport now known as the Burleigh Pottery , where she worked as a designer from until In the s she moved to the firm of A. Richardson and Co in Tunstall. Their brand name was Crown Ducal.