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
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
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
Trembleuse
…by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There are two sets of gold handles for the cups, but these are in fact part of the galleries. A well-known pastel, The Chocolate Girl (Das Schokoladenmadchen) by Jean-Étienne Liotard (now Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, c. 1743) shows a young maid carrying a tray with a Meissen…
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