Object Details
- Ohr, George E.
- Biloxi Art Pottery
- Description (Brief)
- Cylindrical form. Mottled dark green exterior glaze. Yellow green interior glaze. Messages are incised in script over most of stand. Incised below rim encircling crock: "the somebody (that used too (sic) be) that made this pot Was born at Biloxi, Miss. July 12, 1857 (on Sunday 10AM sharp) and is and was G. E. Ohr. " Incised on bottom: "Biloxi, Mis./Dec. 18-1900 To the Smithsonian / Washington/ As kind words and deeds never die/ sutch words and deeds are fire Water, Acid and time proof. When recorded on Mother/Earth or clay-this is an empty jar. Just like the world soild in itself yet full on the / surface. Deed and thoughts live But the / instigators are shadows -fade and disappear/ when the sun goes DOWN./ Mary had a ltttle lamb -Pot Ohr E, George/ has (HAD) a little Pottery "Now" where/is the Boy that stood in the Burning /Deck" this Pot is here, and /I am the potter Who was G. E. Ohr.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1900
- ID Number
- CE.78.4
- catalog number
- 78.4
- Object Name
- Umbrella Stand
- Physical Description
- monochrome, green (overall surface decoration color name)
- ceramic (overall material)
- place made
- United States: Mississippi, Biloxi
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_575714
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-8274-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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