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Bone china

Bone china is a type of porcelain body initially produced in the UK in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is a major part. It is differentiated by extremely high whiteness, strength and translucency. dinnerware thanksgiving 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 In the late 18th century, Josiah Spode continued with further developments, and subsequently popularised it, by mixing it with china clay, China stone and kaolin to compete against the imported Oriental porcelain.

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

Bone china production mainly involves a 2 stage firing where the first "biscuit" is fired without a glaze at 1280