Harlow oval meat large

Bone china

Bone china is a kind of porcelain body first used in the UK in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is a critical ingredient. It is distinguish by supreme whiteness, translucency and strength. harlow oval meat large may be an example of this procedure.

The initial use of bone ash in ceramics is associated with Thomas Frye in 1748 in which he used it to make a type of soft-paste porcelain. In As the eighteenth century drew to a close, Josiah Spode undertook further developments, and consequently made it popular, by mixing it with China stone, kaolin and china clay to compete with the imported Oriental porcelain.

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

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