In many ways, George Edgar Ohr was the quintessential Arts and Crafts potter, combining artistic vision with extraordinary skill. Working in the seaside resort town of Biloxi, Mississippi, Ohr built a pottery—first producing souvenirs and trinkets for tourists escaping the harsh winters—where he created one-of-a-kind sculptural vessels from the local clay. Ohr’s personal mantra was “no two alike,” and he was as eccentric as his work was individualistic. His ultra-thin thrown vessels were manipulated by crimping, ruffling, off-centering, and twisting, and they were often embellished with unusual and supringing glazes, resulting in works that foreshadowed abstract art a half century later. This vessel epitomizes Ohr’s iconoclastic sensibilities. The striking glaze combination—bright yellow ground punctuated by haphazardly arranged circles of black—is entirely original, with the artist treating the vessel like a canvas. Equally imaginative is the form; the potter flattened one side of the foot and the vessel leans dramatically to the side. This vase is from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection of American art pottery donated to the Metropolitan Museum in 2017 and 2018. Ellison was an early admirer, collector, and scholar of Ohr, and this artist’s unparalleled work is well represented in the collection.