The “Aux Oiseaux” dinner service from Bernardaud shows a colorful flock of birds all elegantly perched on gilt branches. Fluttering high above them on the fine Limoges porcelain are colorful butterflies. This imaginative Bernardaud décor, reminiscent of the methods used for old Japanese prints, was inspired by curiosity cabinets, so-called “chamber of wonders”, a sort of precursor to the modern museum, that objects from a variety of origins were presented in the sixteenth and seventeenth century.
