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Bone china

Bone china is a kind of porcelain body initially used in England in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is a critical part. It is distinguish by supreme whiteness, strength and translucency. dinnerware holiday 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 develop a type of soft-paste porcelain. In In the late 18th century, Josiah Spode carried on with further developments, and consequently popularized it, by mixing it with kaolin, china clay and China stone to compete against the imported Oriental porcelain.

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

Bone china production routinely employs a 2 stage firing process where the initial "biscuit" is fired without a glaze at 1280