George Edgar Ohr
Vessel
c. 1906
Physical Qualities
Earthenware, 4 7/16 × 5 1/2 × 4 1/4 in. (11.3 × 14 × 10.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Middendorf Foundation Fund, and Charlotte B. Filbert Bequest Fund
Object Number
2002.210
George Ohr, the self-proclaimed “Mad Potter of Biloxi,” made pottery with paper-thin walls, rippling curves, and crumpled forms. Working from his five-story, pagodashaped store in the tourist town of Biloxi, Mississippi, Ohr used local clay fired in a homemade kiln and painted with his own glazes to craft ceramics which defy practicality and redefine creativity. Ohr professed his ingenuity unabashedly, posting signs in front of his store reading: “UNEQUALED.-UNRIVALED.-UNDISPUTED.-GREATEST.- ART POTTER ON EARTH."
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2002; Fourth Quarter Antiques, Baltimore, MD
Inscribed: BASE, underside, (incised in script), 'G E Ohr'
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 03
