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Bone china

Bone china is a type of porcelain body first used in the UK in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is a critical constituent. It is distinguish by brilliant whiteness, strength and translucency. dinnerware martha stewart may be an example of this procedure.

The first use of bone ash in ceramics is credited to Thomas Frye in the mid eighteenth century in which he used it to introduce a kind of soft-paste porcelain. In In the late eighteenth century, Josiah Spode continued with further developments, and subsequently popularized it, by mixing it with China stone, china clay and kaolin to compete with the imported Oriental porcelain.

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

The production of bone china mainly uses a 2 stage firing where the initial "biscuit" is fired without a glaze at 1280