Monaco plate 10 5 8 inch

Bone china

Bone china is a kind of porcelain body initially used in Great Britain in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is an important part. It is characterised by high whiteness, strength and translucency. monaco plate 10 5/8 inch may be an example of this process.

The first 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 At the close of the eighteenth century, Josiah Spode continued with further developments, and duly made it popular, 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.

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