Millard Balfrery on thu 17 nov 05
Taylor- If you ever get to Upstate NY, a must see is the Everson Museum in
downtown Syracuse. The entire museum is devoted to ceramics, several of
Rousseau's masterpieces are owned by the museum.
My wife's family live about forty miles east of Syracuse in Onieda, almost
every time we visit her family we take in the Everson- at least ten times now!
Figure on at least a half a day. 10000 BC to last week in ceramics. It's the
best $5 you'll ever spend.
We went up a year ago tomorrow to bury her brother, I had my first
Thanksgiving with snow and sleet and black ice. Quite an expierence for this Florida boy.
Happy Thanksgiving, Millard
Taylor from Rockport on thu 17 nov 05
Marcia:
Also know as the Scarab Vase, the "Apotheosis of the Toiler" is beautiful.
I knew nothing of this, but, Marcia, the way you mentioned it (such a
matter-of-fact way) prompted me to begin my next foray into the roots of
our craft. Thank you very much for that impetus. Tally ho!
Below is just an excerpt from the first website I clicked on from the
Google search "Adelaide Robineau thousand hour vase".
Now if I could just find someone who's going to the library...
Taylor, in Rockport TX
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Robineau spent over 1000 hours carving this immense and stunning vase. The
vase was created as part of a project to publicize the young People's
University in 1910. The People's University in University City, near
Jefferson, Missouri, had encouraged its staff to create "grand, public
statements in clay". The Scarab Vase was Robineau's contribution to the
program, and a year later it won the Grand Prize in pottery at the Turin
International Exhibition.
The scarab beetle, the major motif of the vase, was sacred to the ancient
Egyptians as a symbol of the cycle of day and night, life and death, and
immortality. Also known as the dung beetle, the scarab pushes a ball of
dung to close the entrance to its chamber each night. "As it emerges for
the day, the ball of dung is pushed aside. This came to be a symbol of the
emergence of the sun from the horizon as it rises each morning, and the
setting of the sun as it disappears 'into the earth' each night. The
title, 'The Apotheosis of the Toiler,' refers to all the unknown craftsmen
of the world who labor on their craft, just as she had done in carving
this piece. In a sense, her aim with this piece was to place the craftsman
(or woman) in his (or her) proper place: to elevate craftspeople perhaps
not to the status of a god, but to at least an equal to that of the
artist."
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On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:11:10 -0700, Marcia Selsor wrote:
...
>It was under Tulane University. Taxile Doat (of the Sevres Porcelain
>Factory of France) helped start the Woman's University in St. Louis
>during the suffragettes era and where Adelaide Robineau made the
>Thousand Hour Vase. (I think she made it there.) She was definitely
>there.
>Anyway, I think that may be the historical way pottery got into the
>Universities.
...
claybair on thu 17 nov 05
Here's a picture and history
http://netra.glendale.cc.ca.us/ceramics/scarabvase.html
Gayle Bair
Bainbridge Island, WA
Tucson, AZ
http://claybair.com
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To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: The Thousand Hour Vase
Marcia:
Also know as the Scarab Vase, the "Apotheosis of the Toiler" is beautiful.
I knew nothing of this, but, Marcia, the way you mentioned it (such a
matter-of-fact way) prompted me to begin my next foray into the roots of
our craft. Thank you very much for that impetus. Tally ho!
Below is just an excerpt from the first website I clicked on from the
Google search "Adelaide Robineau thousand hour vase".
Now if I could just find someone who's going to the library...
Taylor, in Rockport TX
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Steve Irvine on thu 17 nov 05
Taylor,
There is a very good book about Adelaide Alsop Robineau published in 1981, edited by Peg Weiss
and published by Syracuse University Press. It is unfortunately out of print, but there may be some
copies out there in libraries etc. The book has a photograph of her working on the Scarab Vase,
which is interesting because it gives a sense of scale to the piece. If anyone is interested I can scan
and post a copy of the photo.
The Scarab Vase (more like a covered jar with stand actually) is now in the collection of the
Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York.
Steve
http://www.steveirvine.com
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