Beswick sporting characters its a knock out

Bone china

Bone china is a type of porcelain body originally produced in Great Britain in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is a critical ingredient. It is differentiated by extremely high whiteness, strength and translucency. beswick sporting characters its a knock out may be an example of this process.

The first use of bone ash in ceramics is associated with Thomas Frye in in the late 1740s in which he used it to make a kind of soft-paste porcelain. In As the eighteenth century drew to a close, Josiah Spode carried on with further developments, and duly popularised it, by mixing it with China stone, kaolin and china clay to compete against the imported Oriental porcelain.

The initial elemental formula of six parts bone ash, three and a half parts china clay, and four parts china stone is still the standard English body.

Bone china production generally employs a two stage firing process where the initial "biscuit" is fired without a glaze at 1280