Dinnerware sakura

Bone china

Bone china is a kind of porcelain body initially used in the United Kingdom in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is a critical ingredient. It is distinguish by supreme whiteness, strength and translucency. dinnerware sakura may be an example of this process.

The first use of bone ash in ceramics is attributed to Thomas Frye in the mid eighteenth century in which he used it to introduce a type of soft-paste porcelain. In Towards the end of the eighteenth century, Josiah Spode carried on with further developments, and subsequently made it popular, by combining it with kaolin, China stone and china clay to compete with the imported Oriental porcelain.

The initial basic formula 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 commonly uses a 2 stage firing where the initial "biscuit" is fired without a glaze at 1280