Bone China
The inherent strength of a material informs the nature of the shapes that can be produced from it. Strength, one of the key physical characteristics of bone china, means that it can be formed into thin, delicate sections, conveying an exquisiteness that is associated with the refined image of fine ladies drinking tea. Interesting then, that this material is partly made from a by-product of the food industry, with 50 per cent of the ingredients being made of bone ash, (calcium phosphate), the remaining ingredients are 25 per cent Kaolin (china clay) and 25 per cent quartz.
An English potter developed bone china in the eighteenth century as a result of trying to replicate porcelain from China, where it had been used for over a thousand ...
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