Types and History of Fine Bone China Mugs

Bone China, the English name of fine bone china, was originally called "fine bone china" in Chinese. It is commonly called "bone china" because of taboo of the word "bone ash", and the national standard name is still "fine bone china mugs".

Bone porcelain is a kind of porcelain with high whiteness, good transparency, delicate porcelain and smooth glaze. It is known as "thin as paper, white as jade, bright as mirror, and sound like chimney" after being mixed with animal ashes in ceramic raw materials and fired twice by high temperature vegetable firing and low temperature glaze firing.

Bone porcelain was first invented in Britain. It was invented around 1800. There are many controversies about the inventor, some say Josiah spode, others say so. The history of the invention of Bone China is quite comic. It was accidentally mixed with animal bone ash in the manufacturing process. After further study, it was found that the basic formula was six parts of bone ash and four parts of porcelain stone at first, but it gradually developed into fifty parts of bone ash, twenty-five parts of porcelain stone and twenty-five parts of clay. Until now, it has been regarded as the standard in Britain. Formula.

Over the past two hundred years, Fine Bone China cups has gradually developed into a world treasure of ceramics through generations of famous craftsmen.

Bone ceramics are exquisite in material, fine in production and strict in standard. Its regularity, whiteness, transparency, thermal stability and other indicators are highly demanded. Because of the complex technology of high-grade bone china and the difficulty of making ordinary daily-use porcelain, its production technology has only been popularized in recent years.

Because of its unique shape, concise and bright, white and delicate texture, Bone China has long been used by nobles in various countries, and is the only recognized high-grade porcelain species in the world.