Posted 8 years ago
Bundy
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This is an Elite S.
M. Limoges France. Pattern is like a cone flower and it's blue but it's the three handles that is a puzzlement. I have looked for this pattern and three handled tea cut, and come up with nothing. It was my mothers and she never knew what it was for either. She just thought it was different and purchased it more than a decade ago. ???
eBay has a page with some of these 3 handled tea cups.
They call them "loving cups"???
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Foley-/70049/i.html?_jsoff=1&_sop=16&_nkw=three+handled+cup
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/57843840
All of these messages that claim there are three handled tea cups are misinformed. All of those cups are you 3 handled coffee mugs or tri. handled soup bowls or two and three handled vessels. Some of those are called loving cups but none of them are a Limoge three handled China tea cup. There used to be a matching saucer but unfortunately I broke it. It is also odd that I cannot find this pattern either. I'm still looking and asking. I thought it would have to be ceremonial but it is not a wedding cup. Please...someone has to know the secret behind this cup or maybe it's a one of a kind or a freak. Thanks for all the input and responses.