Coalport snowman wrong nose

Bone china

Bone china is a type of porcelain body first produced in Britain in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is a major ingredient. It is distinguish by high whiteness, translucency and strength. coalport snowman wrong nose may be an example of this procedure.

The first use of bone ash in ceramics is associated with Thomas Frye in the mid eighteenth century in which he used it to make a kind of soft-paste porcelain. In As the 18th century drew to a close, Josiah Spode undertook further developments, and duly popularized it, by mixing it with kaolin, China stone and china clay to compete with the imported Oriental porcelain.

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

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