A little insight: Even at the MEISSEN porcelain manufactory, things get broken from time to time. Whether in production, in sales or even sometimes in the online editorial office. We work with porcelain all day long, so it can happen. Even though porcelain from MEISSEN is very robust and resistant in everyday use, it is not unbreakable. Like many other natural raw materials, porcelain from MEISSEN also breaks when it is being dropped. Of course, you are not happy if you accidentally break the valuable work of a valued colleague, despite the greatest respect and caution. But here you know that it can happen, and statistically it happens to everyone at least once. And so these moments of acceptance and understanding forge an invisible bond of solidarity. We can't undo the past, but we can use it as a driving force to support each other and move forward.

If we look at the whole thing a bit philosophically, the happiness behind shards becomes even clearer. In life, we often encounter challenges and setbacks that seem like a broken piece of porcelain. But instead of being discouraged by the broken pieces, we can see them as opportunities. For in every breakage lies the possibility for growth, change and new beginnings. We can reassemble the shards of our lives and thereby create a new, perhaps even more beautiful version of ourselves or our surroundings.

Sometimes this is how entirely new works of art are created from the pieces. For example, the well-known visual artist Daniel Spoerri modeled the unique piece „Der Zerbochene“ (literally: „The Broken“) for MEISSEN, which reassembles pieces of various crashed table & dinner services into a unique work of art. However, the reuse of broken porcelain is not an isolated case. A variety of selected porcelain shards are finely pulverized, and added to the next porcelain mass. This has the advantage that individual components have already been fired before and therefore the firing temperature for the new mass does not have to be as high. This ensures stabilization in the manufacturing process and a higher quality end product. Large elaborate figurines, opulent vases and the magnificent masterpieces particularly benefit from this.

But instead of picking up the pieces and making something new out of them, maybe it's the right time to let go, look ahead, and move on to new things. When the beloved onion pattern service breaks, it's sad. But we also have beautiful, new services for table and dining in our portfolio. How about, for example, the swan service, the „VITRUV“ collection or „The MEISSEN COLLAGE“?