Belinda oval meat large

Bone china

Bone china is a type of porcelain body initially used in England in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is an essential part. It is differentiated by high whiteness, strength and translucency. belinda oval meat large may be an example of this process.

The first use of bone ash in ceramics is attributed to Thomas Frye in in the late 1740s in which he used it to make a kind of soft-paste porcelain. In At the close of the 18th century, Josiah Spode carried on with further developments, and duly made it popular, by combining it with China stone, kaolin and china clay to compete against the imported Oriental porcelain.

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

The manufacture of bone china commonly employs a two stage firing process where the initial "biscuit" is fired without a glaze at 1280