Teapot
George E. Ohr
ca. 1897–1900
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
7 3/16 x 7 1/8 in. (18.3 x 18.1 cm)
Classification
Teapot
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2017
Accession Number
2017.357.13a, b
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
George E. Ohr · 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...