PAUL OTTAWAY BONE CHINA

Home of the world’s finest quality thrown bone china

PAUL OTTAWAY BONE CHINA

EMAIL     paulottaway@bigpond.com

 

 

120 Grantville-Glen Alvie Road

Grantville Vic 3984 Australia

 

                                                             

 

www.paulottawaybonechina.com

 

General Information

          The summit of pottery’s main technical evolution is porcelain. It is vitrified, white and translucent. There has always been  a striving towards whiteness. Hard porcelain looks bluish by the side of bone china, the ‘whitest’ of all pottery. It is as a rule, more translucent, the potters highest aesthetic achievement, and always whiter than hard porcelain. Bone china’s production is much more difficult than other porcelains because it has  only 25% clay  (plastic) content. The resultant body is short making throwing very difficult thus requiring great skill and long practice. The use of china clay is essential as it  causes it to fire the desired white colour. Unfortunately it is not as plastic as other clays. With wheel formed pots a good plastic clay is vital to the potter to enable him to freely give life to them. For our purposes plasticity can be directly equated to workability. The lower the clay content the harder it is to achieve plastic interpretation on the potters wheel and in an attempt to remedy this contaminated plasticizing materials such as bentonite and ball clay are added in increasing amounts which leads to increased discolouration of the fired ware. So the highest technical achievement in the field of  thrown pottery must be based on the trinity of  whiteness, translucency and plastic interpretation. Paul Ottaway Bone China achieved this in 1979 and has continued to lead the field with its dedication to creating for your enjoyment the very highest quality thrown bone china.                    

BONE CHINA VESTAL Barbed wire, Moon and Southern Cross Motifs in cobalt blue inlay

 

 

 

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