Supreme x Meissen Hand-Painted Porcelain Mirror
Supreme vs. Original
Supreme version
About the original
The Meissen Hand-Painted Porcelain Mirror is an 18.5-by-12-inch wall mirror with a hand-sculpted, hand-painted porcelain frame, produced at the Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen in Saxony, Germany. Meissen was established in 1710 under Augustus the Strong and is the oldest porcelain manufacturer in Europe, identified by its crossed blue swords maker's mark, among the earliest trademarks in continuous use anywhere. Every piece is still formed, fired, and painted by hand in the original Albrechtsburg workshops. The SS22 collab is a custom design made exclusively for Supreme, retailing at $16,000 against a comparable Meissen-catalog original at $22,000.
About Meissen
Meissen is the oldest European porcelain manufacturer, established in 1710 in Meissen, Saxony under Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger, working from earlier experiments by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, produced the first European hard-paste porcelain at Albrechtsburg castle. Meissen introduced its crossed swords mark in 1722, one of the earliest trademarks in continuous use. Its hand-painted figurines, tableware, and decorative objects are still produced in Meissen by master painters and modelers trained through multi-year apprenticeships. Supreme's collaboration placed streetwear iconography on pieces from a 300-year-old state-founded manufactory.
