Trembleuse
The trembleuse (from the French trembler , to tremble) is a cup designed for cocoa at the beginning of the 18th century that could be placed in a raised, openwork receptacle of the saucer so that even a shaky hand could not spill the drink, which was then considered a luxury . The cup was made without a handle , with one or two handles and partly with a lid.
The cup was first made from soft-paste porcelain in the Saint-Cloud factory near Paris .Their model was the Spanish mancerina , which was often made of earthenware . In the 18th century the trembleuse was part of the decoration of stately tables. It was made in various porcelain factories , including in Meissen , Berlin and Vienna .
literature
- Christine A. Jones: Caution, Contents May Be Hot: A Cultural Anatomy of the Cup Trembleuse . In: Ileana Baird, Christina Ionescu (Eds.): Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context: From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture . Routledge, London 2016, ISBN 9781317145448