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Bone china

Bone china is a type of porcelain body initially produced in Great Britain in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is a major ingredient. It is differentiated by extremely high whiteness, translucency and strength. beatrix potter peter and benjamin picking up apples may be an example of this process.

The initial use of bone ash in ceramics is credited to Thomas Frye in the mid eighteenth century in which he used it to introduce a kind of soft-paste porcelain. In At the close of the eighteenth century, Josiah Spode undertook further developments, and consequently popularized it, by combining it with kaolin, china clay and China stone to compete with the imported Oriental porcelain.

The original elementary recipe of six parts bone ash, four parts china stone, and three and a half parts china clay remains the standard English body.

Bone china production mainly makes use of a two stage firing process where the first "biscuit" is fired without a glaze at 1280°C (2336°F) giving a semitransparent product and then it is glaze, or glost, fired at a lower heat under 1080°C (1976°F). beatrix potter peter and benjamin picking up apples is probably manufactured using this method.

Soft-paste porcelain

Soft-paste porcelain is a type of porcelain and therefore a ceramic material.

Its history dates from the early pursuits by potters from Europe to replicate Chinese porcelain by using mixtures of china clay and ground-up glass (otherwise known as frit); soapstone and lime were known to have also been employed in some combinations. As these first concoctions suffered from high pyroplastic deformation, or slumping in the oven at high temperature, they were uneconomic to produce. Compositions were later developed based on feldspars, quartz, kaolin, nepheline syenite and other feldspathic rocks. These were technically superior and are still in production to this day.

Hard-paste porcelain

Hard-paste porcelain is a hard, dense ceramic that was originally made from a formulation of the feldspathic rock petuntse and kaolin fired at extremely high temperature. It was first produced in China around the 9th century.

The secret of its manufacture was unknown in Europe until the early eighteenth century, when Böttger of Meissen, Germany uncovered the formula. In spite of attempts to keep it secret, the procedure was taken up by other German ceramic factories and finally became well used throughout the length and breadth of Europe.

Hard-paste porcelain is fired at a range of temperatures to create a multitude of individual end results. Depending on the firing technique, hard-paste porcelain can resemble stoneware or earthenware. But generally, it is unnecessary to utilize hard-paste porcelain for these lower temperature ceramics. Hard-paste porcelain can be employed to make porcelain bisque, a hard crystalline product fired at very high temperatures in a pressure controlled environment. This process manufactures a translucent bright white ceramic. Unlike other bisque ceramics, porcelain bisque is almost inpenetrable by water, therefore it becomes unnecessary to glaze the body before decorating. Manufacturers such as Precious Moments, Lladro and Hummel employ hard-paste porcelain exactly for this reason, this could include beatrix potter peter and benjamin picking up apples.