The Chocolate Girl
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The Chocolate Girl or The Chocolate Girl of Vienna is one of the best known pastels of the Genevan artist Jean-Étienne Liotard, which is in the collection of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden
Jean Etienne Liotard The Chocolate Girl Google Art Project
Comparable pair of cups by Doccia porcelain, Florence (after 1735) and silver-gilt stands by Paul de Lamerie (1713-14), London
Droste's cocoa tin
Trembleuse
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A trembleuse, also known as a tasse trembleuse or chocolate cup, is a pottery drinking cup and saucer with the saucer given a raised holding area, called the "gallery", in which the cup sits more secu
The Chocolate Girl
…serving tray is a gallery tray, i.e. it has a raised rim to protect against items slipping off the tray. The cup in which the chocolate is served is a trembleuse, supposedly used by people with shaking hands to avoid spilling, but in the 18th century strongly associated with drinking chocolate, then brewed rather…
Vienna porcelain trembleuse cup with gallery from the du Paquier period, 1730
Gobelet et soucoupe enfoncé by Sèvres c. 1776
Vienna porcelain set of 1735–1740, small porcelain tray holding matching cup and water glass, both with gold galleries
Examples of the two types