Dinnerware red

Bone china

Bone china is a type of porcelain body initially used in the United Kingdom in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is an important part. It is characterized by supreme whiteness, strength and translucency. dinnerware red may be an example of this process.

The initial use of bone ash in ceramics is assigned to Thomas Frye in seventeen-forty-eight in which he used it to make a kind of soft-paste porcelain. In As the 18th century drew to a close, Josiah Spode continued with further developments, and subsequently made it popular, by mixing it with kaolin, china clay and China stone to compete with the imported Oriental porcelain.

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

The production of bone china normally uses a two stage firing process where the first "biscuit" is fired without a glaze at 1280