Moonlight rose plate 10 5 8 inch

Bone china

Bone china is a kind of porcelain body first used in England in which calcined ox bone, bone ash, is an important part. It is characterised by brilliant whiteness, translucency and strength. moonlight rose plate 10 5/8 inch 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 introduce a type of soft-paste porcelain. In Towards the end of the 18th century, Josiah Spode continued with further developments, and duly made it popular, by mixing it with china clay, kaolin and China stone to compete against the imported Oriental porcelain.

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

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