Casual dinnerware set

Bone china

Bone china is a kind of porcelain body first developed in the UK in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is a major part. It is differentiated by high whiteness, translucency and strength. casual dinnerware set may be an example of this process.

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

The initial basic formula 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 routinely involves a 2 stage firing process where the first "biscuit" is fired without a glaze at 1280