Soft porcelain

Soft porcelain was first developed in Florence, he appeared in Europe two centuries before solid. Often called Medici porcelain or artistic.

But today, you can hear a name like "frittovy porcelain", implying the manufacturing method. Soft porcelain from which the mostly art products, more transparent than solid, but its heat resistance is much lower. Compared with hard - soft farforor clearer, whiter, softer and "melodic". The easiest way to distinguish the soft porcelain from a solid, if you hold a knife to the glaze. Solid such barbaric experiments will not affect, but the soft glaze will crack. Soft porcelain is quite sensitive to the rapid changes in temperature, make it a mixture of glassy materials containing sand, nitrate, sea salt, baking soda, alabaster supply, which gives better "translucence" porcelain, but in this case, however, the strength and heat resistance porcelain reduced in 2 times.

Soft porcelain is of several types: feldspar, low (vysokopolevoshpatovy) frittovy and bone. Soft paste porcelain was first made in 1575 in Florence, and later - in France in the late 17th century, in Rouen. This discovery allowed the French to produce a magnificent porcelain. English to producing soft porcelain joined later and began to use a smooth type of soft paste. In search of new recipes soft paste porcelain in England were discovered two other types of soft-paste porcelain. One of them - a bone.