Lavender rose coffee pot large

Bone china

Bone china is a kind of porcelain body originally used in Great Britain in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is an important ingredient. It is distinguish by extremely high whiteness, translucency and strength. lavender rose coffee pot large may be an example of this process.

The initial 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 At the close of the eighteenth century, Josiah Spode continued with further developments, and consequently popularised it, by combining it with china clay, kaolin and China stone to compete with the imported Oriental porcelain.

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

Bone china production routinely involves a two stage firing process where the first "biscuit" is fired without a glaze at 1280