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Bone china

Bone china is a kind of porcelain body initially used in Great Britain in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is a critical ingredient. It is characterized by extremely high whiteness, strength and translucency. carnation oval meat small may be an example of this procedure.

The first use of bone ash in ceramics is attributed to Thomas Frye in the mid eighteenth century in which he used it to introduce a type of soft-paste porcelain. In At the close of the 18th century, Josiah Spode carried on with further developments, and duly popularized it, by mixing it with china clay, China stone and kaolin to compete against the imported Oriental porcelain.

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

Bone china production usually makes use of a two stage firing process where the initial "biscuit" is fired without a glaze at 1280