Frederick Alfred Rhead (1856–1933) was a potter working in North Staffordshire, England.
He was one of a number of apprentices who in the 1870s learnt the art of pâte-sur-pâte decoration from Marc-Louis Solon, a French émigré who was the leading exponent of this ceramic technique.
The vase is on public view, having been loaned to the Gladstone Pottery Museum in Longton, Staffordshire.
The three brothers Frederick, Louis and George Woolliscroft Rhead Jr collaborated on book illustration projects, for example an edition of The Pilgrim's Progress.
Bumpus hoped to take a version of the exhibition to the US, but, despite American interest in the Rhead family, this project foundered.