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Porcella Porcella – the origin of the porcelain name This page is still under construction (wv-kh) In Italian, the term “porcella” refers to a rare white noble mussel with a shiny surface.  When Marco Polo first brought porcelain from China to Europe, this type of material was completely unknown. Polo promised the financiers of his costly voyages of…

New Bone China New Bone China – an imitation of porcelain This page is still under construction (wv-kh) It looks like porcelain, it sounds (almost) like porcelain, it has a similar weight to porcelain and yet it is not porcelain! New Bone China is a new kind of material description, mainly coming from Asia, which only…

Magnesium porcelain This page is still under construction (wv-kh)  Similar to “New Bone China”, magnesium porcelain is a kind of “porcelain imitation” with outstanding properties. It looks like porcelain, it sounds like porcelain, it has a similar weight to bone china and yet it is not real porcelain! Magnesiumware is a new kind of material…

Ceramic Tableware Ceramic tableware  In the introduction to the section on product knowledge, we have explained the meaning of the collective term “ceramics” in detail. It is the term used for all non-metallic tableware made of inorganic and clay-mineral raw materials. In everyday use, however, the term “ceramic tableware” is often and gladly used. The vernacular…

Jasperware Jasperware – an ancient soft porcelain (Picture source: Wikipedia – Birmingham Science Museum) This page is still under construction (wv-kh)  The Englishman Josiah Wedgwood – the inventor of jasperware porcelain – has had a lasting influence on the porcelain landscape to this day. The type of soft porcelain also known as “Jasperware” laid the foundation…

Hotel porcelain   A commodity knowledge would be worthless if in the end the reader is just as smart as before! It should be noted that the definitions of porcelain, hard porcelain, soft porcelain, etc. offer a possible scope of interpretation, which gives shrewd or ignorant suppliers the opportunity to advertise inferior ceramics – or…

High Alumina Porcelain The essential quality characteristics of a particular product Since 2015 “High Alumina” represents premium porcelain of Holst Porcelain of the highest quality. Tedious developments in conjunction with german technology, high quality raw materials from 9 different countries and the unbending investigation mind of a competent team with the goal to produce a very independent…

Hard porcelain The correct definition of hard porcelain The term “hard porcelain” is originally a purely German quality designation, which has only been used in international linguistic usage for a few years. In the meantime, however, the term “hard porcelain” has also become established in English and stands for high fired porcelain or ceramics. The…

Green body Green bodies – a stage of porcelain production This page is still under construction (wv-kh) In the porcelain and ceramics industry, a green body or green compact is an unfired, unsintered blank which is in a solid state after shaping. The green body is not created directly by the shaping process. In the…

Tableware Definition of the term crockery In the German language, the term crockery has changed significantly over the past few centuries. Originally, “dishes” stood for a large, not firmly defined number of individual objects, which in their entirety serve a coherent use. Due to language development, the number of product families referred to as “dishes” has been…