Adelaide Alsop Robineau was one of the most accomplished ceramicists and designers of the early twentieth century, but she's almost unknown these days. Nevertheless Art & Antiques Magazine called her much-lauded scarab vase one of the most important pieces of American ceramics in the last hundred years.

Robineau worked in pottery and china-painting design from her studio in Syracuse, New York, sold designs to pottery manufacturers, such as this design, 'Poughkeepsie Violet Border,' for the Sterling restaurant ware manufacturers. She and her husband, Samuel E. Robineau, a French ceramics expert, launched Keramics Studio magazine in 1899, and she was sole editor of the journal for twenty years.

Her work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Cranbrook Art Museum, and other institutions.