ADELAIDE ROBINEAU Cabinet vase covered in celadon crystalline glaze. Incised Y AR. 2 3/4" x 2 1/4"

"Early in our career, a Robineau crystalline was to us the Holy Grail, and this was a much loved Christmas present. Certainly, Robineau was one of the most inspirational figures in the history of American ceramics. According to Frederick Hurten Rhead, after her training at Alfred University, she immediately began producing beautiful work without the typical period of artistic apprenticeship. He said, "I have one of those small earlier bits, small enough to hide in a closed fist, which I would not swap for a number of her later and more ambitious pieces." A vase of the same shape appears in Keramic Studio (Vol. XIII, No. 4) in August 1911, in a photo of Robineau's work exhibited by the American Woman's League at the 1911 International Exposition in Turin, Italy."