Rare Rhead Pottery Santa Barbara Small Vessel, c.1913-1917 handmade decoy The slate on the back

The slate on the back is blank

and the perfect complement to most anything one might display in it

with frame then painted around it

I especially love "Yum / Yum" for the kissing couple

the basket measures 6 1/2" tall

Rare Rhead Pottery Santa Barbara Small Vessel, c.1913-1917 handmade decoy The slate on the backI trusted my eye and gut on this beautiful small matte blue gray glazed vessel, the stamp on the bottom of which I could not quite read when I found it, but which felt like a special thing. Indeed, it is a piece by Frederick Rhead, Rhead Pottery, Santa Barbara, c1913 1917. Frederick Hurten Rhead (18801942) 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