Manufactory: Royal Sèvres manufactory, France.
Technique: Moulding & shaping of the several elements forming the set. After drying the “green ware” pieces are cooked at 900°C. The pieces are glazed and fired. The pieces are painted “au petit feu” and fired again. Then, the gold is applied, and the pieces go one last time in the oven at circa 400°C. The gold is then “bruni” to obtain the
Description : Beautiful covered “trembleuse” cup and matching saucer. Polychrome flower sprays on white ground. Gilt dentil rims. Hard paste porcelain. Marked with the interlaced L's and bearing the signatures of flowers painter and gilder Pierre-Théodore Buteux, active from 1765 until 1784, and painter Nicolas Dutenda, active from 1765 until 1788. Excellent condition.
The “trembleuse”, or “gobelet et soucoupe enfoncé” in 18th-century Sèvres catalogues, has a socket or well below the main plane of the saucer, in which the cup sits, achieving stability. It allowed people with a weak grip because of travelling or a medical condition involving shaking or trembling hands to drink a beverage, initially tea or hot chocolate.
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