Dinnerware southwestern

Bone china

Bone china is a kind of porcelain body initially used in Britain in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is an important part. It is characterised by extremely high whiteness, translucency and strength. dinnerware southwestern may be an example of this procedure.

The initial use of bone ash in ceramics is attributed to Thomas Frye in 1748 in which he used it to make a type of soft-paste porcelain. In As the 18th century drew to a close, Josiah Spode carried on with further developments, and duly popularised it, by mixing it with kaolin, China stone and china clay to compete against the imported Oriental porcelain.

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

The manufacture of bone china generally employs a 2 stage firing process where the first "biscuit" is fired without a glaze at 1280