Vase
1894–1906
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
H. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); Diam. 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)
Classification
Ceramics
Culture
American
Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Virginia H. Groomes Gift, in memory of her mother, Mary W. Groomes, 1976
Accession Number
1976.97
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...