Large Bisque Bank

The “Mad Potter of Biloxi”, George Ohr [1857-1918] was an American ceramicist celebrated from his freely expressive and experimental clay forms — prefiguring the modern Abstract-Expressionist movement with his strange and loose understandings of clay. ‘Large Bisque Bank’ is clearly designed as a vessel for the storing of coins and would have been sold from within the potter’s workshop, the unusual figure typical of the artist’s easy and quick witted control of clay through modest gesture.