Trembleuse

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 securely than in the normal style. The saucer therefore becomes more of a cup holder than the normal shallow near-plate.

A different design – also often called a 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 a similar effect of stability. The main plane of the saucer is raised high. In both types, the cups are mostly in porcelain (or bone china) with some in high quality earthenware such as creamware. The saucers normally match the cups, but are sometimes in silver, or even partly in gold.