Robineau Pottery Marks

Like Mary Louise McLaughlin, Susan Frackleton and Maria Longworth Nichols, Adelaide Robineau started her career as a china painter.  With her husband Samuel she founded Keramic Studio in 1899 as a practical magazine for china decorators but slowly shifted interest into ceramic art most notably porcelain. In 1909 she joined Taxile Doat , Frederick Rhead, Edward Lewis, William Bragdon of California Faience, Emile Diffloth, Edward Dahlquist of the Shawsheen Pottery and others at the American Women’s League at University City in St Louis Missouri, a veritable think-tank of ceramic production. Her production was small but important for carved and reticulated porcelain with complex crystalline glazes, many of which can be seen at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.