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Bowl

Designer Adelaide Alsop Robineau American
1917
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774
Robineau's success with porcelain making paralleled her mastery of increasingly complex decorative techniques. She was a skilled porcelain carver, inciser, and exciser, and her designs were often inspired by Asian, Egyptian, Native and South American art. This bowl, with a spiraling serpent at its center and carved crouching Mayan figures and serpents on its legs, demonstrates her superb carving. The contrasting pale, carved interior, a coiled serpent depicted with concentric circles of diamond-shaped scales in varicolored glazes, alleviates the heaviness of the strong sober form with the monochromatic exterior.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Bowl
  • Designer: Adelaide Alsop Robineau (American, Middletown, Connecticut, 1865–1929 Syracuse, New York)
  • Date: 1917
  • Geography: Made in Mid-Atlantic United States, Syracuse, New York, United States
  • Medium: Porcelain
  • Dimensions: 2 5/8 × 6 7/8 in. (6.7 × 17.5 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1923
  • Object Number: 23.145
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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