Speaking of Bone China, I have to say China's porcelain. It turns out that there is no bone china or porcelain in western countries. In Marco Polo's travels, European countries began to realize that there was a legendary rich country on the other side of the earth. At the beginning, many European countries sent missionaries to visit China and brought many Chinese characteristic materials to western countries, including porcelain produced in Jingdezhen.
Porcelain has set off a frenzy in European countries. It is said that during the war, a high-quality porcelain can be exchanged for an army. Of course, this is just a rumor, but the popularity of porcelain can be seen. Of course, there is a great demand from users, and after all, there are a few porcelain by sea. Unable to meet the needs of the local people, European countries began the road of imitation porcelain.
Imitation also needs to know some technology. Even if you don't know all the raw materials, how to make porcelain. Therefore, they sent their own missionaries to Jingdezhen to preach. The missionaries adopted some porcelain factory apprentices in Jingdezhen. Through many inquiries, they found out a detailed porcelain production process and sent back the materials. In this way, European countries began to make porcelain.
Although there are detailed information on porcelain making, porcelain making is a high-tech technology, which can not produce high-quality porcelain only by relying on information (porcelain making is, after all, a high-end process in Greater China). In this way, European countries began to manufacture porcelain, but the quality of porcelain is far from comparable to that of China. Plagiarism is no way out.
At this time, thin fetal porcelain (known as bodiless porcelain and eggshell porcelain) appeared in China. It is a kind of porcelain as thin as cicada wings, which is another blow to the porcelain industry in European countries. A British youth, seeing exquisite Chinese porcelain, also wanted to make porcelain of higher quality than thin fetal porcelain. After two years of experiments, it was finally found that adding specially treated bone powder to the ceramic material can produce ultra-thin (in fact, it is about 1-1.5mm thicker than thin fetal porcelain) and more transparent and hard bone porcelain. Inspired by Chinese porcelain, it was named Bone China (bone china, also known as bone china). This is an epoch-making product for the porcelain industry in Europe. After that, several major bone porcelain brands in Britain have made continuous innovation in bone porcelain technology, and bone porcelain is a worthy high-grade porcelain.
