Vase
George E. Ohr
ca. 1897–1900
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
9 9/16 x 7 in. (24.3 x 17.8 cm)
Classification
Vase
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2018
Accession Number
2018.294.159
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...