Vase

Threshold Pottery|Adelaide Alsop Robineau

1928 · Stoneware · The American Wing

Adelaide Alsop Robineau is best known for her exquisitely carved porcelains and her sumptuous crystalline glazes. Yet, she too, succumbed to contemporary modes of design, embracing the geometric decoration of the Art Deco style. During the 1920s Robineau taught ceramics at Syracuse University, and established an enterprise for her students, named the Threshold Pottery. The students worked with high-fire stoneware, not her preferred porcelain, and they produced strong, often more geometric vessel shapes than hers, such as this vase, with its pronunced throwing rings. Its rich purple and red glaze testifies to the expertise that Robineau and her husband, Samuel Robineau, had achieved, and which they passed on to their students.

Artist

Threshold Pottery|Adelaide Alsop Robineau

Date

1928

Medium

Stoneware

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Gift of Martin Eidelberg, 2020