Fine Bone China Ceramics

We are known for our high quality and are today regarded as a market leader in fine bone china production.

Fine bone china ceramics.

Buy the very best fine bone china mugs teapots cups and saucers plates and more direct from the staffordshire factory. Bone china is as its name suggests made from bone cow bone in particular although in rare cases you could be eating off of a plate made from a dead person. In days gone by most brides would register for a china pattern. For more than 100 years nikko has produced tableware for fine retail stores as well as for leading hotels and restaurants worldwide.

There s only one ingredient that sets bone china from fine china and that is cow bone ash. Porcelain is a specific type of ceramic material. When added to elastic naturally occurring clays it allows the clay to be fired in an oven at very high temperatures 1900 to 2300. Beautifully crafted fine bone china decorated with exquisitely illustrated classic and contemporary designs to suit any home.

Porcelain is also. Bone china also called fine bone china bone porcelain is a type of ceramic that uses bone ash clay feldspathic material and kaolin as basic material. Learning details about the complex bone china manufacturing process can help you gain more appreciation for the fine dishes in your collection. Usually more expensive than other china bone china pieces contain about 25 of bone ash which makes bone china pieces stronger and whiter and causes the translucency not found in any other ceramics.

Bone china and fine china. Its main ingredient is kaolin a naturally occurring ore. They can look very similar but there s a definite difference in what they re made from. Bone china is the strongest of the porcelain or china ceramics having very high mechanical and physical strength and chip resistance and is.

How do fine china porcelain and bone china differ. Kaolin is a pure white powdery substance that is decomposed granite. Dinner set service for 4 24k gold plated luxury bone china tableware aegean sea 6414 20. Bone china needs to go through two times of firing high temperature 1250 firing which is also called biscuit firing and lower temperature 1150 firing also called glaze firing.

In the broad sense china especially in the united states refers to the good dishes. These are the pretty place settings reserved for special occasions and holidays in most homes. Bone china fine china porcelain. 1 16 of over 1 000 results for fine porcelain china dinnerware euro porcelain 20 pc.

Learn about porcelain fine china. English fine bone china from roy kirkham pottery staffordshire.