Belinda plate 8 inch

Bone china

Bone china is a kind of porcelain body originally developed in England in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is an important ingredient. It is characterized by high whiteness, translucency and strength. belinda plate 8 inch 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 develop a type of soft-paste porcelain. In As the 18th century drew to a close, Josiah Spode continued with further developments, and consequently popularized it, by combining it with China stone, kaolin and china clay to compete against the imported Oriental porcelain.

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

The production of bone china ordinarily involves a two stage firing where the first "biscuit" is fired without a glaze at 1280