Pitcher
George E. Ohr|Biloxi Art Pottery
1890–1905
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
4 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. (10.8 x 16.5 cm)
Classification
Pitcher
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Joan and Jack Alter, 1986
Accession Number
1986.80
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
George E. Ohr|Biloxi Art Pottery · 1857–1918
**George Edgar Ohr (1857–1918)** was an American ceramic artist renowned as the self-proclaimed “Mad Potter of Biloxi.” Born in Biloxi, Mississippi, to German immigrant parents—his father a blacksmith and his mother a grocer—he grew up in a working-class environment with little formal education. Ohr apprenticed under Joseph Fortune Meyer, a family friend and potter associated with the New Orleans...